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.
ERIC CLAPTONMy original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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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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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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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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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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