In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
ERIC CLAPTONOnly ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Music became a healer for me.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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