I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
ERIC CLAPTONMusically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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