I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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 tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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