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Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do. — Jarvis Cocker

I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point. — Bruno Mars

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people. — Jarvis Cocker

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

If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know. — Joe Cocker

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

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person. — Jarvis 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

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

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

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

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. — Jarvis Cocker

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

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

Love lift us up where we belong. — Joe Cocker

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me. — Joe Cocker

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

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

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

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly. — Jarvis Cocker

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

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing. — Jarvis Cocker

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life. — Jarvis Cocker

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it? — Jarvis Cocker

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat. — Joe Cocker

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours. — Jarvis Cocker

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult. — Jarvis Cocker

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. — Jarvis Cocker

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. — Edward Cocker

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling. — Joe Cocker

I could never deny myself bein' an artist. — Joe Cocker

I was in Germany when the wall came down. — Joe Cocker

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person. — Jarvis Cocker

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

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young. — Jarvis 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

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. — Jarvis Cocker

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it. — Jarvis Cocker

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. — Edward Cocker

I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel. — Judy Blume

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway. — Jarvis Cocker

In me soul, I'm gentle. — Joe Cocker

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. — Jarvis Cocker

I've been touring now since about '68. — Joe Cocker

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

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there. — Jarvis Cocker

Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun. — Merry Clayton

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. — Jarvis Cocker

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

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background. — Jarvis Cocker

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

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time. — Jarvis Cocker

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well. — Jarvis Cocker

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

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality. — Jarvis Cocker

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. — Joe Cocker

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out. — Jarvis Cocker

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

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford. — Jarvis Cocker

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

Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced. — Andrew Rosenthal

I'm no good at breakin' off with people. — Joe Cocker

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around. — Joe Cocker

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb. — Jarvis Cocker

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it. — Jarvis 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 would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. — Jarvis Cocker

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? — Joe Cocker

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. — Jarvis Cocker

And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe. — Jarvis Cocker

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. — Joe Cocker

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked. — Jarvis Cocker

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist. — Crystal Bowersox

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. — Jarvis Cocker

We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it. — Jarvis Cocker

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

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today. — Jarvis Cocker

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. — Jarvis 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

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

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it. — Jarvis Cocker

You want loyalty, hire a cocker spaniel. — Michael Lewis

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

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. — Jarvis Cocker

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake! — Jonathan Safran Foer

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. — Joe Cocker

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

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag. — Jarvis Cocker

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it. — Jarvis Cocker

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time. — Jarvis Cocker

I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that. — Jarvis Cocker

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

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose. — Jarvis Cocker

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