J. J. Cale Quotes

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

I'm not a DJ. I play live and think we put on a show. That's it.

We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

People buy my albums, and I love my albums when I do them because we try to record live with that same energy, but I can never get the energy that I have when I'm live.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.

Myself, I would love to record and film every performance I make, as each concert is special and unique.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

Typically in Korea when I perform I have a full band, a ten-piece band, and that's a completely different monster in itself to prepare and rehearse.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.