Top 40 Joe Cocker Quotes

If you’re going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

It’s all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

I think the only thing I would’ve ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I’ve thought of that a couple of times.

There are people who’ll dismiss me as ‘just’ a singer. That’s how it is, how it’s always been, but just because I’m not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn’t mean I’m not putting in the graft.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Well, over the years, I’ve developed a stable of songs of which I’m known for and never get tired of singing.

Making music, if you’re a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

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.

Over the years, I’ve worked with just about everybody.

In the end, I don’t think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

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?

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.

I could never deny myself bein’ an artist.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he’ll go, ‘OK, how about Armenia?’

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it’s a very weird place to be.

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.

I’m no good at breakin’ off with people.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

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.

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.

It’s nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France – they stuck with me through my dark days in the ’70s.

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.

I don’t think you can live as long as I have in rock n’ roll and not take a few hard knocks.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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

When I look back, I didn’t take care of myself at all.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can’t overload people.

To be on the road, even if you’re not that happy, is all right, as long as I’m pourin’ me heart into it.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can’t deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

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

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I’d be physically damaged by the end of a concert.