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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Eric Clapton

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
ERIC CLAPTON

Creation Ideas Myself Sex Sound Strange
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
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
It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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Copy Important Myself Play Stage Yourself
Music became a healer for me.
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Healing Music Myself
It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Independent Inspirational Myself One Liner
The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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Body Case Forgiveness Hope Myself Pain Pessimist
And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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Camera Myself Photograph Soul Steal Thinking
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
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Control Help Power Risk Yourself
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
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
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
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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Morning Myself Night Prison
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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Different Music Myself Rough Scene
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

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