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.
ERIC CLAPTONI often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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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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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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