"...there was no way of telling when he'd crash into an amp or fall the last three steps off the back of the stage. He was dangerous and unpredictable, which made him exciting to watch."

Robert Greenfield « Writing about Keith Richards in STP

It's hard to know where to begin and just how to control myself about John Cale. I think I know him as well as can be expected, and his albums, Vintage Violence, Paris 1919, Academy in Peril, Fear and now the new Slow Dazzle haven't been off my turntable for long during the past ten months. I know some feel he may well be a complex, acquired musical taste...but reading stuff about him lately, well, I don't think people are exactly getting the point.