To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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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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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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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’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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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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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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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 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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