Joe Cocker Quotes

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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• I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Different
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
  • Important
  • Live
  • Together

• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Nuclear Weapons

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Success
  • Look
  • Heights

• I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Long
  • Think
  • Same

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'

  

  Oliver North
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mom

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Kid

• I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• 'Well,' Murmur'd one, 'Let whoso make or buy, My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry: But fill me with the old familiar juice, Methinks I might recover by and by'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Long

• Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

  

  Arthur Hailey
  • Long
  • Remember
  • October

• I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • People
  • Live
  • Religious

• Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Forget

• As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Music
  • Long
  • Song

• 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
  • Long
  • Live
  • Rock