English - Musician | May 20, 1944 - December 22, 2014
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
Joe Cocker
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Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
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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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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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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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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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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
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Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.
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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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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?
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God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
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It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
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