I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTONI think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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.
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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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