John Cale Quotes

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.