There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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Leave 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.
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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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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Music became a healer for me.
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