I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
ERIC CLAPTONBut I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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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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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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