You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTONThe thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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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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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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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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