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.
ERIC CLAPTONThey looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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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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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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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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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