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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.

Eric Clapton

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Emotional Expression Finding Music Pain Reason relief Ways
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
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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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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Auditorium Guitar Instrument Music Myself Performance Play
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
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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Death Drink Low Moments Myself Reason
When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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Confusion Love Myself Wrong
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Heaven Myself Name See Yourself
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
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Inspirational Power Time
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
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Myself Nerve Place
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Addiction Boredom Guitar Kind Myself People Sound

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