Cale Quotes & Sayings

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. — Paul Hoffman

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

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

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw. — Cale Yarborough

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves. — Thomas Chatterton

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life. — Paul Hoffman

In such a beast as this ... " (he means the army)" ... it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle. — Paul Hoffman

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. — Paul Hoffman

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places. — John Cale

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need. — John Cale

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go. — John Cale

His soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration - there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return. — Paul Hoffman

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments. — John Cale

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono. — Charles Hazlewood

Many are called, few are chosen. — Paul Hoffman

Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale's eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze.
"I understand," she said.
It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he'd become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration. — Paul Hoffman

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. — Paul Hoffman

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

I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. — John Cale

I don't exist to teach her a lesson, and it irks me that she thinks labelling me is okay now. Like, by liking guys, I automatically take on that role in her life. That I'm suddenly a supporting character in her story rather than the hero of my own. — Cale Dietrich

Your mama can't find anything she likes in these little one. I also think mommy may have to go to jail for murdering Auntie Binny and Auntie Rena. We might also have to add Uncle Cale to the list too if he keeps griping mommy's ass over legalities of moving her business. Auntie Syra is going to get maimed if she asks to wear black one more time, or asks if her hair can be green. — Alex Morgan

You poor dear! Imagine having to wear Mark's trousers! He's a lovely lad, but I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone. God only knows who's been in them! — Jessica Cale

It's tradition, hon. You can't see him. Why don't you come on out?"

"If I don't see Cale in thirty seconds, I'm coming out naked. It'll be a new tradition."

Silence. Then finally, a voice she knew, with a tint of amusement to it. "Ava? Are you threatening nudity on these people? — Teshelle Combs

Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage."
"Courage?" he asked with confusion.
"Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet. — Lynsay Sands

We didn't have sex."
"What?" Cale blinks at her.
"We just talked."
Talked. Like ... talking? "That isn't a euphemism for some complicated sex act I don't know about, is it? — Dominique Frost

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in. — John Cale

Sitting in a van twiddling my thumbs while you bone up is one thing, but attacking her? No way."
"Bone up?" Cale asked uncertainly.
"Get a boner," the man explained, and then added, "Or an erection to those of us too damned old to know modern lingo ... not to mention be able to judge character anymore. — Lynsay Sands

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. — John Cale

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. — Paul Hoffman

You're not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it."
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. "You think I'm just going to trust you'll let me go?" I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
"You don't have a choice." She was right about that. "Relax. I got your back, Cale."
"You've got a pistol in my back is what you've got."
"Just like old times."
Trust her? Well, shit. — Pippa DaCosta

We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. — John Cale

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business. — James Cameron

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. — Paul Hoffman

- Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. — Paul Hoffman

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

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. — John Cale

My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously. — Michael Weatherly

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. — John Cale

I'll talk to Mortimer and see what he thinks, and then get back to you tomorrow. In the meantime, you should really get to sleep and get those shared dreams going."
Cale grimaced at the suggestion, and reminded him, "She has a splitting headache, Bricker."
"I thought that was a married woman's complaint?" Bricker responded quickly, and then laughed at his own joke as he hung up. — Lynsay Sands

The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship. — Paul Hoffman

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance. — John Cale

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist. — John Cale

The avant-garde makes more sense to me. — John Cale

I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement.
Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive than I thought."
"I am NOT sensitive," Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion.
"It's probably his mother's fault," Lucian said, ignoring him. "Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence. — Lynsay Sands

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. — Cale Yarborough

Everyone should be encouraged ... in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale

I've never worked a day in my life," Prince Cale stated, as if it were an accomplishment.
"I'm sorry," said Fred, Prince of Technical Wonders of the Third Kind, "If might be able to find you something to do, if you decide you're interested. — Tyrean Martinson

When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again, — J.J. Cale

If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night - amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours - always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. — Paul Hoffman

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

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms. — Cale Yarborough

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life. — Paul Hoffman

Usually a quarrel between Cale and Sonya would amuse Sebastian, but today it barely registered. His constant attention was on Anya. She was laughing and enjoying herself with another male, and that bothered him more than it should.
~Sebastian from Demon Possession — Kiersten Fay

And what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh? — Paul Hoffman

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage - but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days. — Paul Hoffman

My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it. — Paul Hoffman

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. — John Cale

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

I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport. — Cale Yarborough

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine. — J.J. Cale

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it. — John Cale

Just as before, Cale moved swiftly into his next hold. His arm shot out like a whip, giving her no time to react. Powerful hands wrapped around her small throat, and he squeezed with a gentle pressure, enough to be uncomfortable, but not enough to really hurt her. He meant to prove a point, but Analia knew this hold well, had been on the receiving end of it many times. This was a hold that could easily render her unconscious. She kept steady, oddly feeling safe even though her pulse spiked wildly.
'How should you counter?' Cale asked.
'I could kick you in your bollocks.'
He smiled at her candor. 'Aye, you could, but a man of any brains would expect a move like that in this position. A better move would be to raise your arm up and bring your elbow down across my arms. If you learn to do it right, you will break my hold, and will be able to get yourself in a more suitable position for a counterattack. Then you go for the bollocks.'"

-Cale & Analia — Kiersten Fay

T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars. — Paul Hoffman

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. — Kin Hubbard

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch. — Paul Hoffman

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. — Paul Hoffman

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker. — Emily Cale

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

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. — John Cale

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them. — Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance. — Cale Yarborough

Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day. — Paul Hoffman

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll. — John Cale

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. — Paul Hoffman

Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know suffering."
Cale from Demon Possession — Kiersten Fay

Cale! Have you had a female in here?"

Calic laughed carelessly. "Depends on when you're referring to. — Kiersten Fay

Dear God, surely you aren't the chef Sam was talking about?"
"No," he said with a laugh, and gestured behind him with a thumb. "Cale here is."
"Kale?" Alex echoed blankly, her eyes sliding to the still half-closed door. She didn't see any evidence of a second man. Frowning, she set the phone back in its receiver and leaned to the side, trying to see out into the kitchen as she muttered, "Kale is a vegetable. — Lynsay Sands

That's what my life is, writing songs. — John Cale

Treat others as you would expect to be treated by them, — Paul Hoffman

You have fought for and claimed your names, and though you may be struck, you will never fall. And that ... " His eyes moisten, fear tingeing his voice, no, it's apprehension. He takes a breath, steels himself. "And that is why I love you."
Seconds pass as his words settle in. I know what he wants to hear, what he aches to hear, what his eyes plead me for. But I can't tell him that because he wants to hear it back. I can't tell him that because it might be what he's pinning his hopes on, a bulwark he'll set against madness. I can't tell him that because Heath could never get a guy like him. I can't tell him that because I don't want him to be alone, or because I don't want to be alone. I can't tell him that because of a million stupid reasons that he would eventually see through, and resent me for. I can't lie to him.
"I love you, Cale."
I tell him because I mean it. — Vaughn R. Demont

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business. — J.J. Cale

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. — John Cale

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time. — John Cale

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. — Cale Yarborough