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Plant your love and let it grow.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Plant your love and let
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: My selective memory of what
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: Very much like that, and
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 feel a real need
I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I grew up playing in
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 think I deliberately sold
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Eric Clapton Quotes: One of the most beneficial
I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I know there will be
I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I don't know if I
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
Eric Clapton Quotes: An obsession is where something
Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Give me a guitar and
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 I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
Eric Clapton Quotes: The first guitar I ever
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
Eric Clapton Quotes: But I did go to
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: Leave bands, go back to
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: It's taken me to be
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
Eric Clapton Quotes: It is painful to relive
It's been up to me to inspire me.
Eric Clapton Quotes: It's been up to me
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 Quotes: I used to do crazy
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Although they can do it
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 - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
Eric Clapton Quotes: The music scene as I
[ Unplugged ] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.
Eric Clapton Quotes: [ Unplugged ] was also
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Our love will rule in
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: It's very dependent on your
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 Quotes: At first the music almost
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I never met Johnny Rotten,
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: My driving philosophy about making
Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Having lovers and friends is
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I found my God in
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. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I think everybody has their
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: My original interests and intentions
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 Quotes: One summer I remember, I
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: The thing about pessimism is
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 wish I could write
It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
Eric Clapton Quotes: It sounds strange for me
When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on
Eric Clapton Quotes: When I was in Nashville,
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 was stumbling on to
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Only ask and you will
I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I don't have half the
Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Yeah, it is, because it's
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
Eric Clapton Quotes: I've always wanted the sound
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: I mean, the sound of
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
Eric Clapton Quotes: There are people these days
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
Eric Clapton Quotes: I couldn't believe how good
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
Eric Clapton Quotes: To sing in a lower
Let it grow, let it grow,
Let it blossom let it flow.
In the sun, the rain, the snow,
Love is lovely, let it grow.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Let it grow, let it
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: For me there is something
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
Eric Clapton Quotes: They found our hero in
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 just managed to convince
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I often enjoy singing in
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I did play a lot
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Well, I think part of
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: This moment in time, on
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I just like the company
Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...
Eric Clapton Quotes: Whatever your standing in life,
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: All I am certain of
Lately I've been running on faith.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Lately I've been running on
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
Eric Clapton Quotes: My identity shifted when I
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Risk is trying to control
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 Quotes: You were at school and
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 Quotes: I listened to King Oliver
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Musically, he was like an
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
Eric Clapton Quotes: The first band I identified
Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Yeah, I wanted to know
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: When you're onstage with an
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Every time you pick up
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
Eric Clapton Quotes: 'My Father's Eyes' is very
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.
Eric Clapton Quotes: I have always been resistant
So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
Eric Clapton Quotes: So there I was in
And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.
Eric Clapton Quotes: And if I don't be
In terms of scale or stature, I believe that if Robert Johnson was reincarnated, he is probably BB King. Maybe it would be worth investigating the appropriate dates to see if this is even a remote possibility.
Eric Clapton Quotes: In terms of scale or
My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.
Eric Clapton Quotes: My dedication to my music
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 Quotes: Oh yeah, I mean, it
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: The only planning I do
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
Eric Clapton Quotes: In playing, I suppose my
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: They looked great, you know
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 Quotes: A British pressing with a
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
Eric Clapton Quotes: You can't mastermind everything. You'll
Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it completely and make it come alive, so that it was part of your life.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Watching him, I understood for
It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
Eric Clapton Quotes: It was a mystery to
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.
Eric Clapton Quotes: My definition of Blues is
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'
Eric Clapton Quotes: It's been very important throughout
Music became a healer for me.
Eric Clapton Quotes: Music became a healer for
I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'
Eric Clapton Quotes: I thought, 'My God, this
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 to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
Eric Clapton Quotes: When I look for what
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: I tried when I was
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