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Joe Cocker
English
Musician
About the author
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Artists
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#People
Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Years
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.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Songs
#People
#Reason
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#World
#Age
#Computer
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Years
#Singing
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Want
#Songs
I've been touring now since about '68.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Now
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Style
#Hearing
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Relax
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?
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Fans
#Parents
#America
#Music
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Germany
I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Old
#Song
I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Love
#Feeling
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.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#People
#Feeling
#Control
#Crowds
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#People
#Ballads
I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Job
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#God
#Years
#Old
#Singing
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Focus
Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Europe
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?
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician
#Life
#American
#Living
#Rest
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
Joe Cocker,
English
Musician