Eric Clapton Quotes
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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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 can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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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I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
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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.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
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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 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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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.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.