To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
ERIC CLAPTONI often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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Yeah, 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.
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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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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