When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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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Music became a healer for me.
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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 often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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