Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
When Eric Clapton cut 'After Midnight,' he sold so many records and it was so big at the time, I decided that… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey,… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn't want… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write a song,… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I'm always doing something that ain't happening, and I'm always happening when there ain't nothing going on. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
