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.
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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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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 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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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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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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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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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