Joe Cocker Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.”

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

“My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.”

“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.”

“A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.”

“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.”