J. J. Cale Quotes

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

I'm a studio rat.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

Back in Korea, I'm always in the studio with YG people. I'd be given a song, and I'd cut it.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.