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.
ERIC CLAPTONOur love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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 don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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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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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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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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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