Eric Clapton Quotes - Page 5

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• The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

  Eric Clapton

  Water, Chicago, Band

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Sunday, Thinking, Night

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

  Eric Clapton

  Couple, Mean, Guitar

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• At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.

  Eric Clapton

  Men, Play, Listening

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

  Eric Clapton

  Emotional, Way, Painful

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• 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 lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy, Grateful, Thinking

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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

  Grandmother, Guitar, Noise

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• And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

  Eric Clapton

  Morning, Night, Order

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• So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

  Eric Clapton

  Art, Thinking, Media

  Song: Tulsa Time, Album: Backless, 1978

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Hurt, Mean, Guitar

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• 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

  Reality, Emotional, Mind

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Real, People, Needs

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• 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

  Loss, House, Obscurity

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Knowing, Culture, Berries

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• You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

  Eric Clapton

  School, Groups, Chicks

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, People, Sound

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• 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

  Drawing, Guy, Necks

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• I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

  Eric Clapton

  Nerves, Half

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• To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

  Eric Clapton

  Keys, Use, Harder

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• 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

  Sports, Kids, Loner

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, America, People

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• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  Eric Clapton

  Kings, Jelly, Monk

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• 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

  Pain, Journey, Mixtures

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• One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Hollies, Berries

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