David Coverdale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
-- David Coverdale

#Song #Cousin #Brother
What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
-- David Coverdale

#Thinking #Consequence
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
-- David Coverdale

#Heart #Feelings #Uncomfortable
I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
-- David Coverdale

#Albums #Cop
I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
-- David Coverdale

#Changed #Vehicle
I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.
-- David Coverdale

#Thinking #Two #Important
I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.
-- David Coverdale

#Europe #Purple #Long
I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
-- David Coverdale

#People #Should #Confrontation
All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.
-- David Coverdale

#Home #Half #Records
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
-- David Coverdale

#Couple #Thinking #Past
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
-- David Coverdale

#Successful #Knives #Criticism
I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.
-- David Coverdale

#Names #Feelings #Records
People think that I don't like women.
-- David Coverdale

#Thinking #People
If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
-- David Coverdale

#Politician
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
-- David Coverdale

#Past #Lasts #Remember
I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.
-- David Coverdale

#Voice #Work Out #Body
I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
-- David Coverdale

#Good Life #Careers #Decision
Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.
-- David Coverdale

#America #Rocks #Media
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
-- David Coverdale

#Impatient #Situation
The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
-- David Coverdale

#Being Human #Demigods #Stage
Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
-- David Coverdale

#Voice #Rocks #Band
Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
-- David Coverdale

#Taken #Long #Albums
The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.
-- David Coverdale

#Song
Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
-- David Coverdale

#Song #Tongue #Tongue In Cheek
My voice is an instrument.
-- David Coverdale

#Voice #Instruments
With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.
-- David Coverdale

#Song #Purple #Inappropriate
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
-- David Coverdale

#Teacher #Art #Passion
Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...'
-- David Coverdale

#Hands #Doe #Pages
Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.
-- David Coverdale

#Past #Development #Artistic
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
-- David Coverdale

#Thinking #Ideas #Records

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