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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.

Eric Clapton

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
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Fall In Love Fools Myself World
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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Eyes Feeling Light Love Realization Yourself
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Guitar Identity Music Myself Personality
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Kingdom Love Ourselves Rule
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Independent Inspirational Myself One Liner
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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Accomplishment Choice Competition Lying Myself
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
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Admire Fans Meet Myself Person
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
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Attachment Business Finding Music Ourselves Politics Religion Way
If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Guitar Hands Place Yourself
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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Creation Ideas Myself Sex Sound Strange
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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Inspirational Life Myself relief Trial
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Heaven Myself Name See Yourself
All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Bad Certain Myself Right Run
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Hard Work Low Sing Yourself
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
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
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Addiction Boredom Guitar Kind Myself People Sound
I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Boredom Music Myself Play
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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Assure Discover Happiness Moments Pain Time Yourself
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Feeling Goal Myself
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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Better League Music Theory Time

All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.

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