I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
ERIC CLAPTONVery much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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