I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
ERIC CLAPTONI often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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