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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More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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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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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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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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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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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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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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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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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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I 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.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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