Eric Clapton Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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 tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to…
• I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and…
• 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…
• 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…
• Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
• 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,…
• When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying…
• It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
• 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…
• Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

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