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.
ERIC CLAPTONFor me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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