One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTONI thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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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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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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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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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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