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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.
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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 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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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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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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While there is time, let's go out and do everything.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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It's been up to me to inspire me.
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The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.
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When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
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If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
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I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.