The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
ERIC CLAPTONEvery time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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 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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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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