"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?"

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Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

Joe Cocker

#Years Quotes #Guy Quotes #Singing Quotes

“While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.”
“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.”
“Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?”
“You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.”

Source : Lori Foster (2011). “Savor the Danger”, p.55, HQN Books
“Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!”
“Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.”
“I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.”

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