Joe Cocker Quotes

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Joe Cocker

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 20, 1944

I'm no good at breakin' off with people.

Joe Cocker

To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.

Joe Cocker

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

Joe Cocker

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'

Joe Cocker

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

Joe Cocker

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Joe Cocker

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Joe Cocker

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

Joe Cocker

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.

Joe Cocker