I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
ERIC CLAPTONLately I’ve been running on faith.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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