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.
ERIC CLAPTONLoose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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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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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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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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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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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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 know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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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