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.
ERIC CLAPTONLoose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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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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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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