J J Cale Quotes

#1. People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

John Cale

#2. If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

John Cale

#3. Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Kin Hubbard

#4. T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.

Paul Hoffman

#5. All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

John Cale

#6. I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

Cale Yarborough

#7. (Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.

Paul Hoffman

#8. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Paul Hoffman

#9. In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

John Cale

#10. If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

Cale Yarborough

#11. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Paul Hoffman

#12. Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

Emily Cale

#13. Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

James Cameron

#14. And what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

Paul Hoffman

#15. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Paul Hoffman

#16. We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Paul Hoffman

#17. When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again,

J.J. Cale

#18. We didn't have sex."
"What?" Cale blinks at her.
"We just talked."
Talked. Like ... talking? "That isn't a euphemism for some complicated sex act I don't know about, is it?

Dominique Frost

#19. Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage."
"Courage?" he asked with confusion.
"Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

Lynsay Sands

#20. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.

Paul Hoffman

#21. I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

John Cale

#22. People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Charles Hazlewood

#23. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Paul Hoffman

#24. The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

John Cale

#25. I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

Cale Yarborough

#26. Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

John Cale

#27. Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Paul Hoffman

#28. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

Paul Hoffman

#29. It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.

John Cale

#30. I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

John Cale

#31. I've never worked a day in my life," Prince Cale stated, as if it were an accomplishment.
"I'm sorry," said Fred, Prince of Technical Wonders of the Third Kind, "If might be able to find you something to do, if you decide you're interested.

Tyrean Martinson

#32. I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

John Cale

#33. If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

J.J. Cale

#34. Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

J.J. Cale

#35. Many are called, few are chosen.

Paul Hoffman

#36. That's what my life is, writing songs.

John Cale