You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic became a healer for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Music became a healer for me.
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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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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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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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