Blind Faith Quotes
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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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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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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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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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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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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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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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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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 grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
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Lately I've been running on faith.
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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.