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David Coverdale [1951-0] English
Rank: 103
Musician, Singer


David Coverdale is an English rock singer best known for his work with Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after which he established his solo career. 

Design, Experience, Hope, Music, Romantic, Teacher



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What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
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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. Hope
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You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. Music
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Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
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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.
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It's all about love.
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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. Experience
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The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
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If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
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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.
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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.
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People think that I don't like women.
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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. Design, Romantic, Teacher
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I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
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I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
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I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
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I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
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My voice is an instrument.
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The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
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I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.
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Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
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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.
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Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.
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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.
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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.
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Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.
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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.
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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.
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I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
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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.
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