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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

Eric Clapton

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 CLAPTON

Beautiful Company Eligible Famous Music Myself Woman
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Crazy Goodness Gratitude Myself People Survive Time
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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Audience Cold Evening Love Note Oneself
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
ERIC CLAPTON

Fall In Love Fools Myself World
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Identify Myself Water
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Confusion Fear Healing Learning Listening Music Myself
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
ERIC CLAPTON

Admire Fans Meet Myself Person
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Couple Goodness Guitar Instrument Myself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Guitar Thinking Versatile Yourself
When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTON

Confusion Love Myself Wrong
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
ERIC CLAPTON

Affect Cycle Feeling Hands Myself Observational People
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Culture Music Myself Reason Remember
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
ERIC CLAPTON

Enjoyment Guitar Myself Original Play Remember Thinking
All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
ERIC CLAPTON

Bad Certain Myself Right Run
I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
ERIC CLAPTON

Myself Nerve Place
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Leaving Mindset Obsession Yourself
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
ERIC CLAPTON

Inspirational Power Time
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Best Hit Kind Myself People
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Control Dependent Emotional Mindset State Yourself
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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Different Music Myself Rough Scene
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
ERIC CLAPTON

Celebrity Myself Polite Tough
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
ERIC CLAPTON

Goodness Hollywood Myself Thinking
I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
ERIC CLAPTON

Hate Love Myself Problem Woman
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
ERIC CLAPTON

Enjoyment Myself Oneself Sing
When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
ERIC CLAPTON

Artificial Electric System Voice Yourself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Group Myself Personality School

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

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