I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTONI did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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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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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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The 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.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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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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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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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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