Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
ERIC CLAPTONThis 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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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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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 never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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