Blind Faith Quotes
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
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In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.