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But 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.

Eric Clapton

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Attachment Business Finding Music Ourselves Politics Religion Way
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Boredom Music Myself Play
I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Early Myself Record Sound
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
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
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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Better League Music Theory Time
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Hard Work Low Sing Yourself
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
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
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
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
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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Blue Change Drugs Music Powerful Yourself
I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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Easy Muse Visit Writing
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

But 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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But 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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