It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic became a healer for me.
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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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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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