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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

Eric Clapton

I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTON

Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself
All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
ERIC CLAPTON

Bad Certain Myself Right Run
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
ERIC CLAPTON

Guitar Thinking Versatile Yourself
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
ERIC CLAPTON

Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
ERIC CLAPTON

Myself Nerve Place
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Combination Easy Fingers Myself Play Start
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
ERIC CLAPTON

Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Direction Fast Listening Myself Old People Try
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
ERIC CLAPTON

Early Myself Record Sound
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
ERIC CLAPTON

Kingdom Love Ourselves Rule
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
ERIC CLAPTON

Addiction Boredom Guitar Kind Myself People Sound
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
ERIC CLAPTON

Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTON

Ego Inferior Myself Trauma
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Curriculum Finding Kind Lonely Music Sports Yourself

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