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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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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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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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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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I 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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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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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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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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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 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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
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 definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith