“I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, ...” — J. J. Cale Quote

“I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.”

“Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.”

“Nobody really produces my albums.”

“When I was 12, my mother took me to nightclubs. She had no idea how to parent.”

“It was when I met everybody on 'The Perfect Score' that, like, nightclubs became a thing.”

“My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.”