I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTONI never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTONPlant your love and let it grow.
ERIC CLAPTONYou were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
ERIC CLAPTONI am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTONA 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.
ERIC CLAPTONI used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
ERIC CLAPTONTo sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
ERIC CLAPTONThey 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.
ERIC CLAPTONLoose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
ERIC CLAPTONBut 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.
ERIC CLAPTONOne of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
ERIC CLAPTONI like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTONLeave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
ERIC CLAPTON