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.
ERIC CLAPTONRisk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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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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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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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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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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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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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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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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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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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