The Academic In Peril: JOHN CALE ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE
“I don’t really aim for being a ‘renaissance man’ or anything like that—but sometimes you end up that, if you do a lot of things and you do them all well... “But I can’t understand how you can do them all well, though. Something’s got to lose...” —John Cale, on if he died, how he would like to be remembered.
The Academic In Peril: JOHN CALE ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE
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I'll eventually make concrete moves to write symphonies, start writing orchestral pieces again. —John Cate
“I don’t really aim for being a ‘renaissance man’ or anything like that—but sometimes you end up that, if you do a lot of things and you do them all well...
“But I can’t understand how you can do them all well, though. Something’s got to lose...”
—John Cale, on if he died, how he would like to be remembered.
I could probably tell you about how John Cale has been on more good records than any human has a right to be. Or how, after he left the Velvet Underground, he turned up playing sessions on records by Nick Drake, Mike Heron, Tax Free, Earth Opera and Chunky, Ernie & Novi. Or how he produced the first albums by the Stooges, Patti Smith and even the Modern Lovers.