Eric Clapton Quotes
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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, 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.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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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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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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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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 is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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 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.