I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
ERIC CLAPTONVery 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Music became a healer for me.
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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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 got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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