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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

Eric Clapton

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Leaving Mindset Obsession Yourself
Plant your love and let it grow.
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Growth Love One Liner Plant
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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Children Music Myself Respond Way
My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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Feeling Music Myself Nervous System
I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Early Myself Record Sound
I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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Guitar Thinking Versatile Yourself
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
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
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
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Drive Kind Music Myself Note Philosophy Play Right Sincere
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

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