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.
ERIC CLAPTONIt 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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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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Music became a healer for me.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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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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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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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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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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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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