I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
ERIC CLAPTONI’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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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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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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