For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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 often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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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 grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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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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