J. J. Cale Quotes

Call me the Scatman. I do quite a bit of scattin'.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.

Sarah Silverman makes me laugh out loud every time I see her.

When Jack Black and I started Tenacious D, there were about two seconds in the beginning when we thought maybe we'd have a go at serious music. But we quickly abandoned that when we realized that everything we did tended to come out funny.

There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

I'm pretty funny on my own.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

I've just watched the whole series of 'Flight of the Conchords'. I absolutely love it - the humour, the actors, everything about it.

I've always just tried to make the audience laugh.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.