I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
ERIC CLAPTONI just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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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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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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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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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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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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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 feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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