99 Quotes by J. J. Cale

If a guy came up and said 'we got a polka band and we're going to play polkas next Saturday night' I'd play polkas.

I was an engineer for a long time. I was a sideman guitar player.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

As the years went by and technology came in, I used a lot of technology.

All my music sounds the same to me.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.

I'm a background person.