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 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 never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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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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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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 music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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