I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
ERIC CLAPTONLeave 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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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.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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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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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 am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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