I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTONMusic 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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