I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTONI never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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