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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

Eric Clapton

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
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
ERIC CLAPTON

Blow Catch Day Man Walk Yourself
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
ERIC CLAPTON

Myself Nerve Place
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTON

Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
ERIC CLAPTON

Expression Feeling Gift Greatness Myself Play Way
I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTON

Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Beautiful Company Eligible Famous Music Myself Woman
One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTON

Benefit Learning Mouth Myself Shut
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
ERIC CLAPTON

Choice Enjoyment Leaving Loss Myself Place Security
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
ERIC CLAPTON

Hard Work Low Sing Yourself
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
ERIC CLAPTON

Accomplishment Choice Competition Lying Myself
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
ERIC CLAPTON

Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTON

Alone Life Myself Peace Quiet Solitude
I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
ERIC CLAPTON

Freedom Music Myself Open Respect

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

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