Top 50 Quotes by Joe Cocker

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

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

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.

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

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

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?

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

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.

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

I'm no good at breakin' off with people.