99 Quotes by J. J. Cale

Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.

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

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been able to go around in my trailer. If I got tired of a place, I could move on and roam around. It's a nice environment for writing songs, as opposed to sitting at a recording studio console all day.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while it has that magic, and the audience knows that. I probably miss it more than I hit it, but I think that's what all musicians try for.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.