Joe Cocker famous quotes

04-12-2025

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
-- Joe Cocker

#Beautiful #Needs #Need You
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #Moving #Focus
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
-- Joe Cocker

#Style #Matter #Hearing
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?
-- Joe Cocker

#Thinking #Idols #Scary
Love lift us up where we belong.
-- Joe Cocker

#Inspirational
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
-- Joe Cocker

#Thinking #Play #Able
I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #Feelings
I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.
-- Joe Cocker

#Years #Looks #Want
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.
-- Joe Cocker

#People #Feelings #Elements
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
-- Joe Cocker

#People #These Days #Ballads
I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
-- Joe Cocker

#Jobs #Gas #Pipe
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
-- Joe Cocker

#Friendship #Littles #Helping
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #Moving #Want
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
-- Joe Cocker

#Years #Guy #Singing
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
-- Joe Cocker

#Nice #Artist #Response
I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #Rays #Able
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
-- Joe Cocker

#People #Quarters #Entertaining
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
-- Joe Cocker

#New York
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
-- Joe Cocker

#Wall #Germany
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
-- Joe Cocker

#Berries #Littles #Chuck
Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
-- Joe Cocker

#Europe #Galloping
Ive been touring now since about 68.
-- Joe Cocker

#Touring
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?
-- Joe Cocker

#Mean #America #Interesting
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
-- Joe Cocker

#Age #World #Computer
Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.
-- Joe Cocker

#Years
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.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #People #Lists
Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world.
-- Joe Cocker

#Real #Musician #World
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
-- Joe Cocker

#Thinking #Relax #Colorado
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
-- Joe Cocker

#Song #Tired #Years

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