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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’d say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words. J. J. Cale Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer. J. J. Cale Read Quote
People said my records were ‘funky’ and ‘muddy,’ but the truth is they were just demos. J. J. Cale Read Quote
