I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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