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If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

- Joe Cocker

Big, Going, Fever, Cabin

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

- Joe Cocker

Be Careful, Always, Been, Sucker

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

- Joe Cocker

I Am, Where, Am, Galloping

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

- Joe Cocker

Think, Been, Couple, Pub

A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.

- Joe Cocker

Young, Carefree, Over, Tip

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'

- Joe Cocker

New, Go, Always, OK

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.

- Joe Cocker

Heat, Your, Bit, Disconcerting

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

- Joe Cocker

Richard, Berry, Chuck Berry, Rockers

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

- Joe Cocker

Like, Gas, Which, Pipe

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

- Joe Cocker

Singing, Old, Guy, Bald

I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

- Joe Cocker

Old, Like, Still, None

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

- Joe Cocker

Think, Find, Finds, In The End

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.

- Joe Cocker

Singer, Been, Putting, Dismiss

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

- Joe Cocker

Me, Through, Germany, Stuck

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

Through, Over, Large, Element

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

Singing, Over, Which, Stable

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

- Joe Cocker

Play, Think, I Think, Songwriter

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

- Joe Cocker

Matter, I Can, Like, Hearing

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

- Joe Cocker

Beat, Used, Keep, Slap

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.

- Joe Cocker

My Life, Roll, Berry, Chuck

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

- Joe Cocker

Simplicity, Think, I Think, Strongest

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

Reason, Some, Set, Good Reason

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

- Joe Cocker

People, Very, Entertaining, Quarter

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

- Joe Cocker

Kid, Want, Dad, Noise

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

- Joe Cocker

Concert, Away, Carried, Damaged

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

- Joe Cocker

Music, World, Making, Regardless

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

- Joe Cocker

Artists, Get, Cover, Response

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

- Joe Cocker

New York, New, York, Unfortunately

I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.

- Joe Cocker

Long, Think, Roll, Knocks

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

- Joe Cocker

Song, Like, Before, Ray

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