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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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it (Eric Clapton Quotes)
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run (Eric Clapton Quotes)
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest (Eric Clapton Quotes)
One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut (Eric Clapton Quotes)
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn’t need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation (Eric Clapton Quotes)
The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life (Eric Clapton Quotes)
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition (Eric Clapton Quotes)
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire (Eric Clapton Quotes)
I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening? (Eric Clapton Quotes)
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself (Eric Clapton Quotes)
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically (Eric Clapton Quotes)
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
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 (Eric Clapton Quotes)
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me (Eric Clapton Quotes)
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall (Eric Clapton Quotes)
The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine (Eric Clapton Quotes)
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity (Eric Clapton Quotes)
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time (Eric Clapton Quotes)