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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.

Eric Clapton

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
ERIC CLAPTON

Feeling Music Myself Nervous System
When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
ERIC CLAPTON

Direction Fast Listening Myself Old People Try
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Couple Goodness Guitar Instrument Myself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Age Children Man Music Myself Old Voice
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON

Guitar Identity Music Myself Personality
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTON

Feeling Goal Myself
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
ERIC CLAPTON

Guitar Instrument Music Pick Play Time Yourself
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
ERIC CLAPTON

Music Myself Spirituality Trust Vehicle
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
ERIC CLAPTON

Celebrity Myself Polite Tough
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
ERIC CLAPTON

Attachment Business Finding Music Ourselves Politics Religion Way
When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTON

Confusion Love Myself Wrong
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
ERIC CLAPTON

Morning Myself Night Prison
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Desperate Myself Note Planning Work

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