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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Eric Clapton

I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
ERIC CLAPTON

Better Fans Leadership Musician Myself People Sing
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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Copy Important Myself Play Stage Yourself
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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Group Myself Personality School
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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Blame See Sight Yourself
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Kingdom Love Ourselves Rule
I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
ERIC CLAPTON

Eyes Feeling Light Love Realization Yourself
The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
ERIC CLAPTON

Body Case Forgiveness Hope Myself Pain Pessimist
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Myself Nerve Place
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Music Myself Spirituality Trust Vehicle
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Beautiful Company Department Man Myself Weakness
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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Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
ERIC CLAPTON

Alone Life Myself Peace Quiet Solitude
Very 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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself
It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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Control Dependent Emotional Mindset State Yourself
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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Better League Music Theory Time
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Hard Work Low Sing Yourself
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Failure Guitar Instrument Music Myself Talk
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTON

Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
ERIC CLAPTON

Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Bad Certain Myself Right Run
I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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God Myself Thinking
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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Difficult Goodness Guitar Management Mom Myself Worth
When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Family Home Myself Point Possible
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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Grave Head Heart Love Myself Path Save
Lately I’ve been running on faith.
ERIC CLAPTON

Faith Myself Run

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