I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTONAnd 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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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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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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