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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More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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Music became a healer for me.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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