Blind Faith Quotes
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When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.
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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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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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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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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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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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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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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 don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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 point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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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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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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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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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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Lately I've been running on faith.
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Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
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The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.
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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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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.