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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In me soul, I'm gentle. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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