I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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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 never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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