For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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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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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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