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.
ERIC CLAPTONAnd if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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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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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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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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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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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 can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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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 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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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