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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.

Eric Clapton

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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Best Hit Kind Myself People
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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Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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Guitar Instrument Music Pick Play Time Yourself
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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Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
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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Feeling Music Myself Nervous System
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Inspirational Power Time
The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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Desperate Myself Note Planning Work
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Drive Kind Music Myself Note Philosophy Play Right Sincere
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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Celebrity Myself Polite Tough
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
ERIC CLAPTON

Delight Father Learning Myself Obsession
Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Assume Lady Road Sex Yourself
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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Better League Music Theory Time
I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Belief Heaven Hope Myself Tears

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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