Quotes

“I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.” David Coverdale

“If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.” David Coverdale

“It's all about love.” David Coverdale

“Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.” David Coverdale

“My voice is an instrument.” David Coverdale

“Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.” David Coverdale

“People think that I don't like women.” David Coverdale

“The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.” David Coverdale

“The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.” David Coverdale

“With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.” David Coverdale

“You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.” David Coverdale

“All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.” David Coverdale

“I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.” David Coverdale

“I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.” David Coverdale

“I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.” David Coverdale

“I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.” David Coverdale

“The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.” David Coverdale

“When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.” David Coverdale

“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.” David Coverdale

“Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.” David Coverdale

“With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.” David Coverdale

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” Ray Charles

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.” Ray Charles

“There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'” Ray Charles

“What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.” Ray Charles

“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.” Ray Charles

“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.” Ray Charles

“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.” Ray Charles

“I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.” Ray Charles

“I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.” Ray Charles