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.
ERIC CLAPTONAll along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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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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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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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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I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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’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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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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All 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.
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