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.
ERIC CLAPTONThe point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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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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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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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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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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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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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 always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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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