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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

Eric Clapton

There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
ERIC CLAPTON

Desire Expression Head Myself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Better League Music Theory Time
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTON

Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
ERIC CLAPTON

Morning Myself Night Prison
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 CLAPTON

Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
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
Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
ERIC CLAPTON

Assume Lady Road Sex Yourself
I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
ERIC CLAPTON

Age Give Up Guitar Hurt Myself Play Try
It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
ERIC CLAPTON

Age Children Man Music Myself Old Voice
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
ERIC CLAPTON

Day Dreams Myself People Sincere
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTON

Emotional Expression Finding Music Pain Reason relief Ways
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
ERIC CLAPTON

Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTON

Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
ERIC CLAPTON

Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
ERIC CLAPTON

Believe Comparison Deal Fantastic Music Myself Surrender
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
ERIC CLAPTON

Inspirational Power Time

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

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