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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.

Eric Clapton

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Beautiful Company Department Man Myself Weakness
Plant your love and let it grow.
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Growth Love One Liner Plant
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
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
I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Early Myself Record Sound
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
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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Guitar Thinking Versatile Yourself
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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Body Case Forgiveness Hope Myself Pain Pessimist
I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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Believe Comparison Deal Fantastic Music Myself Surrender
The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Family Home Myself Point Possible
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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Affect Cycle Feeling Hands Myself Observational People
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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Desperate Myself Note Planning Work
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Leaving Mindset Obsession 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
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

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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