One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTONOh 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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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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