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The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!
Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.
The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.
I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.
You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.
As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try.
I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.
Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.
To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'
I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.
Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
What do I think of digital recording? Well, it's all right. But those old thorn needles, now, that was a sound.
I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.
We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.
I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'.
Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.