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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

Eric Clapton

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Emotional Expression Finding Music Pain Reason relief Ways
If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Guitar Hands Place Yourself
I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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Better Fans Leadership Musician Myself People Sing
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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Desire Expression Head Myself
Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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Faith Myself Run
I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Boredom Music Myself Play
Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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God Help Music Need Power Present Suffering Survive
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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Listening Love Myself Thinking
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Need Requirement Yourself
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Guitar Identity Music Myself Personality
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Inspirational Power Time
And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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Camera Myself Photograph Soul Steal Thinking
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
Music became a healer for me.
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Healing Music Myself

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