Blind Faith Quotes
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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.
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What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.
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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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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
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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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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 am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
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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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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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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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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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 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.