"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
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Timeline: 1960
School Days at Goldsmiths' Teachers' College
Studies musicology at Goldsmiths' College, London from 1960 to 1963.
"I didn't get the grades enough to go into university so I just got the best I could. I really persuaded the deputy warden in an interview that Goldsmiths was the right thing for me. I really wanted to be a composer and they gave me the opportunity."
He went back for a visit in 2003:
"I did go down to Goldsmiths and I thought my God nothing has changed. I mean the traffic is still shit. The way the whole convergence outside the building and everything else. The women's dorm is gone which is a crying shame... I used to run upstairs up to the art department all the time. It was a lot of fun. They were all wearing mini skirts and you know, all the action was upstairs in the art department. I mean you're around all these different kind of influences."
From London to NYC:
"I decided to go to college in London only as a step towards New York. I could see very little worth exploring in Britain, but in London, I thought, I would find out how to get to New York."
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