Joe Cocker Quotes

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• Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't…
• God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
• The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
• Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.
• Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good…
• Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
• Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
• I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
• I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
• I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the…
• I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to…
• I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
• For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
• Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
• You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
• It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans…
• Ive been touring now since about 68.
• Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
• Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
• I was in Germany when the wall came down.

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