I watched him around proverb

 I watched him around guys like George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and I realized the look in their eyes was the same look I had when I looked at Dad.

 The guitar was hanging. It was an Eric Clapton signature model, the Martin guitar designed for Eric Clapton. It was black with lots of inlay on it.

 Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my attention, there's a picture of me, like a very young picture of me, and there's a picture of Eric Clapton now and a picture of me then, and it says this is how Eric Clapton has aged.

 [Like this one a few years ago:] Hello, John, this is Eric Clapton, ... Love to do your song.

 I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

 Well, it's a very mundane answer I'm afraid, nothing to do with Eric Clapton or born again religions or anything like that.

 I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

 [As he and his father played a game of one-on-one later that day, Sam spoke up. He felt sad, but also glad that Harrison wasn't suffering anymore.] He had such a great life, too, Dad, ... What was he going to do next? What could a person like George Harrison do next? ... I mean, he'd already done everything in his life.

 As a guitar player, he was exemplary, ... So many musicians talked about how they wanted the George Harrison sound. The group the Byrds, in America, listened to Harrison and said, 'I want to be like that.' So many guitar players today emulate Harrison's guitar playing. You listen to his playing in the '60s, he doesn't sound out of date at all. It is as contemporary today as it was then.

 George Clooney, Matt Dillon and Heath Ledger all wore tuxedos with black bow ties. Those guys outshone the women. They looked fresh. They looked handsome. They looked like Hollywood leading men.

 When I came out my freshman year, it basically opened my eyes to the sport. I realized wrestling is a big deal. I saw all the older varsity guys and how hard they worked. That's when I realized you have to put a lot of work into it.

 He was able to create this style of music that is highly valued by blues aficionados but also by the general public in part thanks to Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the like.

 I had Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on my show long before the general public caught up to them, ... I also had Eric Clapton and Cream on the program. They were real loud.

 When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, or anybody. Because when I hit that note, I hit the umbilical cord of anybody who is listening.

 She said to me that she had been shocked. At first I thought she was talking about a static-electricity shock, but I looked at her and her eyes were big and I realized that her defibrillator had just gone off.


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