Art Quote by J. J. Cale Download Open image “I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.” — J. J. Cale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artists Artists Cover Contact Artists Cover Cover songs Rarely Rarely Contact Songs Who
People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Since I'm known for recording other artists' material, I'm absolutely deluged with mail from all the publishing companies. They take all the songs that've… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song. — Zedd Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything. — Chris Stapleton 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
