Joe Cocker Quotes
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It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
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In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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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.
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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.
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I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
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For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
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I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
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In me soul, I'm gentle.
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My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.
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I'm no good at breakin' off with people.
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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.
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I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
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Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.
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Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
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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.
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I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.
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I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
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I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
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If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
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People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
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When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.