Joe Cocker Quotes

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

Joe Cocker

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• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Give

• Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Marriage
  • Gay
  • Gay Marriage

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Control
  • Grow
  • Plants

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Available

• It's nice not to have to live a double life.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nice

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Manipulation

• Nothing in life is promised except death.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Death
  • Nothing

• The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Live
  • Nature
  • City

• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Travel
  • Professional
  • Golf

• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Time
  • Failure

• The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • You
  • Better
  • Will

• I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

  

  Kate Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Direct

• The results are in great need greater ambition.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Need
  • Ambition
  • Results

• I've always loved 'lived-in' sci-fi. We take it for granted now, but it was a revelation in the late '70s - '80s, when movies like 'Alien', 'Escape From New York', and even 'Star Wars' introduced us to the idea that the future could, in fact, look old.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Future
  • Star
  • Alien

• I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.

  

  Will Forte
  • Imagine
  • Leaving
  • Guarantee

• Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We should say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Events
  • Sadness
  • Opinions

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

  

  Joe Cocker