I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
ERIC CLAPTONI’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
ERIC CLAPTONI’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTONIt is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTONWould you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
ERIC CLAPTONYou were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
ERIC CLAPTONOh 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.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
ERIC CLAPTONLoose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
ERIC CLAPTONRisk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTONIt’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.
ERIC CLAPTONMy 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.
ERIC CLAPTONThey 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.
ERIC CLAPTONWhen I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
ERIC CLAPTONAll I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
ERIC CLAPTON