Blind Faith Quotes
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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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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.
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My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
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The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
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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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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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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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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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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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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.