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John Cale

"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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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."

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"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

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"I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession."

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

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"I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time."

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

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"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."

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"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."

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"The avant-garde makes more sense to me."

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"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure."

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"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."

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