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• ‟ People said my records were 'funky' and 'muddy,' but the truth is they were just demos.

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• ‟ People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

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• ‟ I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

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• ‟ I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

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• ‟ People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.

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• ‟ I always wrote for musicians, especially guitarists. I write songs that people who aren't great virtuosos can play.

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• ‟ I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

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• ‟ I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

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• ‟ Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

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• ‟ Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

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