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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.

Eric Clapton

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Control Help Power Risk Yourself
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Family Home Myself Point Possible
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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Day Dreams Myself People Sincere
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Myself Nerve Place
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
When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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Confusion Love Myself Wrong
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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Easy Muse Visit Writing
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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Beautiful Company Eligible Famous Music Myself Woman
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Difficult Goodness Guitar Management Mom Myself Worth
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Leaving Mindset Obsession Yourself
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
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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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
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
The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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Desperate Myself Note Planning Work
Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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Friendship Goodness Lover Myself Yourself

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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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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