Joe Cocker Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
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.
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.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
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.
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
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.
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?
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s.
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.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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.
My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.