Joe Cocker Quotes
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I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.
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I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
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Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
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Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
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Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
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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.
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I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
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It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
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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?
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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.
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A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.
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The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
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It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
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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.
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I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
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I was in Germany when the wall came down.
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Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
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Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
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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.
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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.
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I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.