Quote

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

Joe Cocker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joe Cocker
Age: 70 †
Born: 1944
Born: May 20
Died: 2014
Died: December 22
Actor
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Whitesmith
Sheffield
England
John Robert Cocker
Fitter
Pipe
Gas
Bits
Jobs
Like

More quotes by Joe Cocker

Image
Love lift us up where we belong.
Joe Cocker
Image
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
Joe Cocker
Image
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
Joe Cocker
Image
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
Joe Cocker
Image
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
Joe Cocker
Image
Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.
Joe Cocker
Image
You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
Joe Cocker
Image
Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.
Joe Cocker
Image
I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.
Joe Cocker
Image
Ive been touring now since about 68.
Joe Cocker
Image
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
Joe Cocker
Image
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
Joe Cocker
Image
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
Joe Cocker
Image
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
Image
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
Joe Cocker
Image
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
Joe Cocker
Image
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
Image
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