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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
Explore more quotes by John Cale

"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."

"I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football."

"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank."

"What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance."

"I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen."

"In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places."
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