I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
ERIC CLAPTONI feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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