Joe Cocker Quotes

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Joe Cocker

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 20, 1944

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

Joe Cocker

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 who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Joe Cocker

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Joe Cocker

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

Joe Cocker

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Joe Cocker

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Joe Cocker

When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.

Joe Cocker

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Joe Cocker

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

Joe Cocker

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

Joe Cocker

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.

Joe Cocker

In me soul, I'm gentle.

Joe Cocker

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

Joe Cocker

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

Joe Cocker

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.

Joe Cocker

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Joe Cocker

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 control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Joe Cocker

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

Joe Cocker

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Joe Cocker

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Joe Cocker