John Cale Quotes

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

I was born loving music. It was always my friend.

Music has always been close to my heart.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

The great love of my life is music.

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

Music is my love.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I give my heart in every single session I've done, and I get into the music. I love all kinds of music, and I try and really be as authentic as possible and give from my heart.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.