99 Quotes by J. J. Cale

Oil was the big business in Tulsa and there was quite a bit of nightlife for a small town. You could never make any money, but you could always find a place to play.

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really like 'em.

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in bar bands. I was an old man of 32 when I made my first album.

When you get successful, the money comes in and pretty soon you've got to hire an accountant, you've got to get up early, and then you've got a day job.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

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 to be famous.

Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it and everybody plays a long time and people really like that. But I made my living as a songwriter so I try to get to singin' and get it over with.