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.
ERIC CLAPTONI can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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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 can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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