top of page
Exlpore more Sense quotes

"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."
Explore more quotes by John Cale

"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

"We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance."

"Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time."

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

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