“Creo que eso fue por lo que realmente eramos músicos experimentados. Teníamos serias raíces que se extendieron por diferentes culturas, obviamente, el blues.”

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Original: «I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird».
Fuente: Cosmo, Lepota L. Rock Love Quote - 5000 Quotations On Rock N’ Roll of Legends, Bands, Producers, Instrumentalists, Writers and Leading Vocals. Editorial Lulu Press, Inc, 2016. ISBN 9781329884830 https://books.google.es/books?id=uemcCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT313&dq=Classical+musicians+go+to+conservatories,+rock%27n+roll+musicians+go+to+the+garage&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGwIH6lZDeAhVMSsAKHUEiBBMQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Classical%20musicians%20go%20to%20conservatories%2C%20rock'n%20roll%20musicians%20go%20to%20the%20garage&f=false

"Yo no quiero volverme tan loco", 1981)

Original en inglés: «The only education I ever really had was finding out about the blues. I mean, I wanted to know everything».
Fuente: Kitts, Jeff y Brad Tolinski Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time!: From the Pages of Guitar World Magazine, pp. 16, 36. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002. https://books.google.es/books?id=Fg838EcECUwC&pg=PT41&dq=%22Freddie+King%22+clapton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj76bSunp3hAhWszoUKHR39ANcQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=%22Freddie%20King%22%20clapton&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2019.

Fuente: Carta a V. A. Krylov, 1867, en: Borodin: Collected Letters.