Eddie Kirkland quotes

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.
-- Eddie Kirkland

#Heart #Guitar #Long

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.
-- Eddie Kirkland

#Play #People #Want

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.