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 CLAPTONI’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Music became a healer for me.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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