My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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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 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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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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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.
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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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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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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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