One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTONThey 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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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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