My 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.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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.
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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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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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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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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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My 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.
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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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