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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

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 like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Alone Life Myself Peace Quiet Solitude
I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Early Myself Record Sound
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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Market Music Myself Place Thinking Time
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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Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
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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Age Give Up Guitar Hurt Myself Play Try
I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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Eyes Feeling Light Love Realization Yourself
I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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Freedom Music Myself Open Respect
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Guitar Identity Music Myself Personality
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Kingdom Love Ourselves Rule
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
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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Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Control Help Power Risk Yourself
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

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