J. J. Cale Quotes

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.

I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.

The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song. It's tough to do because there are so many great songwriters in Nashville, and I was lucky enough to get some songs recorded before I got my record deal.

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.