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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 Clapton

The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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Body Case Forgiveness Hope Myself Pain Pessimist
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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Feeling Music Myself Nervous System
My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
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
Music became a healer for me.
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Healing Music Myself
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
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 never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Admire Fans Meet Myself Person
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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Business Definition Establish Family Inheritance Kind Live Myself People Pilgrimage Thinking
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
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
It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Independent Inspirational Myself One Liner
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Feeling Goal Myself
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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Grave Head Heart Love Myself Path Save
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
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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Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition

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.

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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.

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