I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
ERIC CLAPTONThe blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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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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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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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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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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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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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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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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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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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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