When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTONYou can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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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 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.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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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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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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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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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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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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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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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.
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