"Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.“

-Eric Clapton

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"I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men."

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"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."

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