I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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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 got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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