Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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.
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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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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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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.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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 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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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.