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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.

Eric Clapton

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
ERIC CLAPTON

Belief Heaven Hope Myself Tears
There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
ERIC CLAPTON

Desire Expression Head Myself
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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Choice Enjoyment Leaving Loss Myself Place Security
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
ERIC CLAPTON

Beautiful Company Eligible Famous Music Myself Woman
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
ERIC CLAPTON

Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
ERIC CLAPTON

Expression Feeling Gift Greatness Myself Play Way
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
ERIC CLAPTON

Grave Head Heart Love Myself Path Save
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTON

Emotional Expression Finding Music Pain Reason relief Ways
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTON

Feeling Goal Myself
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
ERIC CLAPTON

Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
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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Inspirational Life Myself relief Trial
Lately I’ve been running on faith.
ERIC CLAPTON

Faith Myself Run
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
ERIC CLAPTON

Hard Work Low Sing Yourself
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
ERIC CLAPTON

Different Music Myself Rough Scene
I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
ERIC CLAPTON

God Myself Thinking

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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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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