Joe Cocker Quotes

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Joe Cocker

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 20, 1944

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

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I could never deny myself bein' an artist.

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I was in Germany when the wall came down.

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Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

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I've been touring now since about '68.

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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 reason why they are there; people really like them.

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Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

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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 it?

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Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

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I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

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I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

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People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

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My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

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I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

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When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

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I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

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I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

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