You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTONTo sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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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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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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 got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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.’
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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 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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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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