Joe Cocker Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I've been touring now since about '68.”

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

“I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“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?”

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