If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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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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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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