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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.

Eric Clapton

You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTON

Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Guitar Identity Music Myself Personality
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Control Help Power Risk Yourself
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Fall In Love Fools Myself World
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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Blame See Sight Yourself
Plant your love and let it grow.
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Growth Love One Liner Plant
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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Age Children Man Music Myself Old Voice
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Choice Enjoyment Leaving Loss Myself Place Security
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
You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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Group Myself Personality School
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
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
Music became a healer for me.
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Healing Music Myself

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.

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