I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
ERIC CLAPTONMy Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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