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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

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Eric Clapton
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 30
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