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.
ERIC CLAPTONIt’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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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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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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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