Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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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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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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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Music became a healer for me.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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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.
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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 never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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