Top 50 Quotes by Joe Cocker

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

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.

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

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

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

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

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

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

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.

I've been touring now since about '68.