David Cook Quotes

• If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

  David Cook

  Life, Laughing, Hell

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• Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

  David Cook

  Enjoy

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• Life has a strange way of working itself out

  David Cook

  Way, Strange

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• My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

  David Cook

  Brother, Oxygen, Parent

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• I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

  David Cook

  Thinking, Willing

  "David Cook is running on coffee, adrenaline". www.today.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Grief, Alcohol, Reactions

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• If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  David Cook

  Make Or Break, Way, Knows

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• It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

  David Cook

  Forget, Haircuts

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• I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

  David Cook

  Mean, Play, Goal

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• I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

  David Cook

  Shy, Causes, Embarrassing

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• I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

  David Cook

  Winning, Want, Faults

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

  David Cook

  Rocks, Saws, Shows

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

  David Cook

  Writing, Hands, People

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• There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

  David Cook

  Song, Emotional, Theater

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I live for Tuesdays, and die by Wednesdays.

  David Cook

  Tuesday, Wednesday, Dies

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• I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

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  Years, Cities, Kansas City

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• I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

  David Cook

  Song, Growing Up, Teenage

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• I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

  David Cook

  Song, Thinking, Talking

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

  David Cook

  Hair, Grows, Wanted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

  David Cook

  Guy, Different, Records

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• It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

  David Cook

  Spray

  "David Cook is running on coffee, adrenaline". www.today.com. May 22, 2008.

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• I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

  David Cook

  Thinking, Sound, Music Education

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.

  David Cook

  Games, Cities, Kansas City

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• I knew at the time my haircut was pretty damn god-awful, so I was just hoping that I wasn't one of the joke ones. And they put me through to Hollywood and I thought, "Well okay, maybe I'm still one of the joke ones but at least I'm not terrible?"

  David Cook

  Hollywood, Awful, Damn

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

  David Cook

  Good Luck, Goes On, Bucks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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