My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
ERIC CLAPTONIt 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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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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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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 mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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