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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Eric Clapton

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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Desperate Myself Note Planning Work
It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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Age Children Man Music Myself Old Voice
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Drive Kind Music Myself Note Philosophy Play Right Sincere
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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Grave Head Heart Love Myself Path Save
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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Enjoyment Guitar Myself Original Play Remember Thinking
Plant your love and let it grow.
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Growth Love One Liner Plant
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
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
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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Business Definition Establish Family Inheritance Kind Live Myself People Pilgrimage Thinking
When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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Direction Fast Listening Myself Old People Try
I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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Blow Catch Day Man Walk 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
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 got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Hate Love Myself Problem Woman
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Heaven Myself Name See Yourself
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

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

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