Quotes About Coverdale

#1. Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

Ruth Rendell

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

David Coverdale

#7. People think that I don't like women.

David Coverdale

#8. Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

David Coverdale

#9. In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

David Coverdale

#10. 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

#11. I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

David Coverdale

#12. The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

David Coverdale

#13. I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

David Coverdale

#14. I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

David Coverdale

#15. The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

David Coverdale

#16. My voice is an instrument.

David Coverdale

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

David Coverdale

#21. I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.

David Coverdale

#22. 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

#23. It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after.

Miles Coverdale

#24. I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

David Coverdale

#25. Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

David Coverdale

#26. If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

David Coverdale

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

David Coverdale

#30. I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period ... I like to learn from the past ... not 'live' in it.

David Coverdale

#31. Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

David Coverdale

#32. You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

David Coverdale

#33. It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note - no only what is spoken and written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows.

Myles Coverdale

#34. Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

David Coverdale

#35. What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

David Coverdale

#36. 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