Plant your love and let it grow.
ERIC CLAPTONHaving lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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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 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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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