It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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