I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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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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They 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.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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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 often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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