Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
ERIC CLAPTONMy 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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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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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.
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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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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