If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
ERIC CLAPTONLeave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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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.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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