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.
ERIC CLAPTONI never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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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 don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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