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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

Eric Clapton

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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Different Music Myself Rough Scene
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Leaving Mindset Obsession Yourself
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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Combination Easy Fingers Myself Play Start
Plant your love and let it grow.
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Growth Love One Liner Plant
When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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Affect Cycle Feeling Hands Myself Observational People
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Feeling Goal Myself
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
The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Family Home Myself Point Possible
I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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Captivate Help Myself People Sound
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
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
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
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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Blame See Sight Yourself
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’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

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