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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Eric Clapton

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Assume Lady Road Sex Yourself
There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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Desire Expression Head Myself
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Need Requirement Yourself
It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Independent Inspirational Myself One Liner
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
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
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
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 don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Myself Nerve Place
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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Expression Feeling Gift Greatness Myself Play Way
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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Auditorium Guitar Instrument Music Myself Performance Play
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
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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Couple Goodness Guitar Instrument Myself
Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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Faith Myself Run

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