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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.

Eric Clapton

I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
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
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
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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Freedom Music Myself Open Respect
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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Celebrity Myself Polite Tough
Music became a healer for me.
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Healing Music Myself
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
It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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Control Dependent Emotional Mindset State Yourself
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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Faith Myself Run
Very 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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Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
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
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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Death Drink Low Moments Myself Reason
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
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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Confusion Fear Healing Learning Listening Music Myself

If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.

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