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.
ERIC CLAPTONWhen 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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But 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.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I 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.
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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.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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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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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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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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