I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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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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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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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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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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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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