The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
ERIC CLAPTONIf you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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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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