I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTONAlthough they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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