John Robert Cocker Quotes

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

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• Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It’s somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

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

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• The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

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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 really like them.

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

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

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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 my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

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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’ve been touring now since about ’68.

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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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• I was in Germany when the wall came down.

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• I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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John Robert Cocker (23)

Birth:	20th May, 1944
Death:	22nd December, 2014
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Singer

About

John Robert "Joe" Cocker was born in Sheffield, England. He was an English singer, known for his gritty voice. Cocker's cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" reached number one in the UK in 1968. His 1974 cover of "You Are So Beautiful" reached number five in the US. He was the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his US number one "Up Where We Belong", a duet with Jennifer Warnes. In 1993, he was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male. He was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list. His albums list shown below: With a Little Help from My Friends, I Can Stand a Little Rain, Jamaica Say You Will, Stingray, Luxury You Can Afford, Civilized Man, Unchain My Heart, One Night of Sin, Organic, Respect Yourself, Heart & Soul, Hard Knocks, and Fire It Up.

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