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.
ERIC CLAPTONRisk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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 don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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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