When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTONGive me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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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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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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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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