Blind Faith Quotes
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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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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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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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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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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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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 point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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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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The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
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And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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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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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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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.