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 CLAPTONI got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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