In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
ERIC CLAPTONI don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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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 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.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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