It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

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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.

ERIC CLAPTON

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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Children Music Respond Way
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Guitar Identity Music Personality
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.

ERIC CLAPTON

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.
ERIC CLAPTON
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.

ERIC CLAPTON

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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Combination Easy Fingers Play Start
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Goodness Hollywood Thinking
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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Culture Music Reason Remember
If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.

ERIC CLAPTON

If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Guitar Place
Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

ERIC CLAPTON

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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Character Discover Feeling Goodness Reality
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

ERIC CLAPTON

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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Feeling Music Nervous System
One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

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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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Benefit Learning Mouth Shut
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

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.
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Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports
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.

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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.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Ego Inferior Trauma
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.

ERIC CLAPTON

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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Guitar Instrument Music Pick Play Time
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

ERIC CLAPTON

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Enjoyment Oneself Sing
I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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