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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.

Eric Clapton

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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Choice Enjoyment Leaving Loss Myself Place Security
It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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Copy Important Myself Play Stage Yourself
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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Affect Cycle Feeling Hands Myself Observational People
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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Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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Children Music Myself Respond Way
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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Emotional Expression Finding Music Pain Reason relief Ways
I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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Better Fans Leadership Musician Myself People Sing
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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Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Difficult Goodness Guitar Management Mom Myself Worth
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Diamond Heroes Ourselves Ring Weapon
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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Confusion Fear Healing Learning Listening Music Myself
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.
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Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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Business Definition Establish Family Inheritance Kind Live Myself People Pilgrimage Thinking
The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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Inspirational Life Myself relief Trial
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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Different Music Myself Rough Scene
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
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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Feeling Music Myself Nervous System
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Crazy Master Mindset Play Show Yourself
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Fall In Love Fools Myself World
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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Friendship Goodness Lover Myself Yourself
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Music Myself Spirituality Trust Vehicle
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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Couple Goodness Guitar Instrument Myself
I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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Captivate Help Myself People Sound
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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Accomplishment Choice Competition Lying Myself
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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Guitar Thinking Versatile Yourself
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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Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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Expression Feeling Gift Greatness Myself Play Way

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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