You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
ERIC CLAPTONUp until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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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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