Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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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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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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