Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTONYeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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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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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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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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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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