It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
ERIC CLAPTONIn playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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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 grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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