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.
ERIC CLAPTONI never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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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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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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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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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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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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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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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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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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