"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."

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Source : "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

J.J. Cale

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“My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”
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“This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.”
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
“Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No, we use facts connected with Him to outline qualities that correspond with Him, collecting a faint and feeble mental image from various quarters. Our noblest theologian is not one who has discovered the whole - our earthly shackles do not permit us the whole - but one whose mental image is by comparison fuller, who has gathered in his mind a richer picture, outline, or whatever we call it, of the truth.”
“Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.”
“Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.”

Source : Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
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