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.
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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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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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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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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.
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