I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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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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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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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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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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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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 couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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It’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.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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