To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
ERIC CLAPTONWhen I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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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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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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 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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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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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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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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 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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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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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