If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
ERIC CLAPTONVery 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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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 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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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 mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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When 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.
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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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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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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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