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.
ERIC CLAPTONIn playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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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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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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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