Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
ERIC CLAPTONThe thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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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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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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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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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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