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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

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
I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Hate Love Myself Problem Woman
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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Delight Father Learning Myself Obsession
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
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
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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Creation Guitar Human Intention Interest Music Myself Original Primary Voice
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Drive Kind Music Myself Note Philosophy Play Right Sincere
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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Assure Discover Happiness Moments Pain Time Yourself
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
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
I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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God Myself Thinking
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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Enjoyment Guitar Myself Original Play Remember Thinking
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
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
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma

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