When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTONI’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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 feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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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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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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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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