Quotes by J. J. Cale - Page 2

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.
J. J. Cale /
Rhyme
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That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.
J. J. Cale /
Imitating
Time Long Yourself
One Of The Problems
Songwriter
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Nashville
Love Me Country
Blues
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My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can happen.
J. J. Cale /
Flattering
Desired
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Drawing
Familiar
Time People Hard
Clapton
Eric Clapton
Hard Time
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I've stolen licks from just about every person that ever picked up a guitar. We all borrow from one another; it's called legitimate stealing.
J. J. Cale /
Stealing
Borrow
Legitimate
Picked
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Publicity
Songwriting
Record
Rent
Sing
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Albums
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From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums, and guitars. I did that on almost every album.
J. J. Cale /
Bass
Tunes
Album
Almost
Did
Drums
Guitars
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That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.
J. J. Cale /
Clock
Nice
Songwriting
Nice Thing
Punch
Specific
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So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.
J. J. Cale /
Cutting
Gold
Records
Sound
Sell
Mine
Musicians
Picking
Turned
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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.
J. J. Cale /
People Sometimes Will
Hear
Record
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Successful
Job
Accountant
Pretty
Day Job
Early
Hire
Soon
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Sometimes I make up songs, and they're just strictly fiction. Other times, I draw on things that have happened in my life or friends, women, all sorts of things.
J. J. Cale /
Life Women My Life
Make Up
Strictly
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I didn't really get any success till I was 30 years old. I played music when I was young fella, but I didn't really get any success till I was about 30 years old.
J. J. Cale /
Fella
Till
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That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write a song, I had all these influences comin' through.
J. J. Cale /
Jazz
Sat
Influences
Listened
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Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I've done on occasion.
J. J. Cale /
Done
Nonfiction
Songwriting
Either
Even
Occasion
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Big Business
Nightlife
Small Town
Business Money Always
Quite A Bit
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Old Man
Bar
Man People Old Man
Different People
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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.
J. J. Cale /
If I Could
Manipulate
Range
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There's a couple of songs of my own I wished I'd have never put out, that, you know, I'd like to burn. But with the advent of digital and computer, nothing goes away any more, you know.
J. J. Cale /
Advent
Burn
Wished
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A lot of people are coming down on people taking old rock 'n' roll songs and making commercials out of them, but from a songwriter's standpoint, I don't mind because it helps pay my rent.
J. J. Cale /
Pay
Standpoint
Coming
Commercials
Helps
Rock
Rent
Taking
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Guitar Player
Profitable
Songwriting
Figured
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I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.
J. J. Cale /
Hey
Time Man Me
Time Man Your
Big Time
Days
John
Shove
Wants
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Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.
J. J. Cale /
Bars
Customers
Jazz
Rhythm
Tunes
Music Jazz Country
Music Country Blues
Blues
Country Music
Music Country Jazz
Rock
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Magical
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When Eric Clapton cut 'After Midnight,' he sold so many records and it was so big at the time, I decided that I would pursue the songwriting thing. I was 34 years old at that time. I'd been down the pike and back before I had any success at all.
J. J. Cale /
Decided
Eric
Midnight
Pursue
Records
Clapton
Cut
Eric Clapton
Sold
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Console
Environment
Recording Studio
Sitting
Tired
All Day
Basically
Move On
Opposed
Studio
Recording
Roam
Trailer
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Funny
Comedy
Cracked
Heard
Routine
Music Always Me
Funny Music Always
Funny Music Me
Did
Yes
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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.
J. J. Cale /
Gigs
Panic
Time Long People
Time Long Song
Doin
Expand
Widespread
Singin
Songwriter
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I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.
J. J. Cale /
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Unique
Mixer
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