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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

Eric Clapton

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Alone Life Myself Peace Quiet Solitude
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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Different Music Myself Rough Scene
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Need Requirement Yourself
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
ERIC CLAPTON

Better League Music Theory Time
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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Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Fall In Love Fools Myself World
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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Beautiful Company Eligible Famous Music Myself Woman
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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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
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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Addiction Boredom Guitar Kind Myself People Sound
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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Enjoyment Guitar Myself Original Play Remember Thinking
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
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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Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
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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Easy Muse Visit Writing
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTON

Feeling Goal Myself

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