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.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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 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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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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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 couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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You 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.
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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