Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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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 did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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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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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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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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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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 often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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