Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
ERIC CLAPTONHaving lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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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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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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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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