99 Quotes by J. J. Cale

I'm basically a songwriter, man. Songwriters are down in the fine print, you know? And I really enjoy that.

I'm not a household name.

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

The music is the same if you go all the way back to the first albums I made or the middle or whatever. The thing that's different is the lyrics.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

I'm so old, I can remember before rock 'n' roll come along.

I cut all my early records in Nashville, so I guess that makes me country. I call it country pop, but my love of the blues is in there, too.

What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail.