J. J. Cale Quotes

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

I loved dancing as a young girl.

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.

I think we all miss our childhood.

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

When I was little, I would sing all around the house.

I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

I think back to my time when I was skating: I was 15, and there was no such thing as Instagram.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

I listened to a lot of No Doubt stuff when I was in high school - or maybe it was middle school... I don't want to age myself too much!

I love the guitar because you can bring it everywhere, and you can start a jam wherever you are.