Music became a healer for me.
ERIC CLAPTONBut 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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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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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 just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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 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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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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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’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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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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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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