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“People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.” quote by J. J. Cale — Download Open image

“People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.”

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I just play my guitar and push my songs and I'd like to keep it quiet.

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Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

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If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

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There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer.

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What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

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I'm always doing something that ain't happening, and I'm always happening when there ain't nothing going on.

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