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23 quotes by Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English rock and blues singer and musician who came to popularity in the 1960s. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. Cocker's cover of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" reached number one in the UK in 1968. He performed the song live at Woodstock...
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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... →

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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... →

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

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For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

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

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I've been touring now since about '68.

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

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I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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

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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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Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

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