For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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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Music became a healer for me.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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