I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic became a healer for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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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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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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