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 CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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