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 CLAPTONI grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Up 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.
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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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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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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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