Eric Clapton Quotes
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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'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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Lately I've been running on faith.
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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.
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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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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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It's been up to me to inspire me.