Blind Faith Quotes
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While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
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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 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.
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'
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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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One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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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.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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 never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.
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Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.