I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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.
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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like 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 tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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