Lately I’ve been running on faith.
ERIC CLAPTONAnd I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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 like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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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 is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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 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 always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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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.
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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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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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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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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