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