I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
ERIC CLAPTONI’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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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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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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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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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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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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 don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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