Blind Faith Quotes
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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.
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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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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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While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
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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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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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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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Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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 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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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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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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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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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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One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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.