I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic became a healer for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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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.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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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’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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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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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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