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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 Blind Faith -
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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.
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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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith