Quotes by Eric Clapton - Page 2

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 / Musician
Loss
Obscurity
Bands
Enjoying
First Place
Great Sense
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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.
Eric Clapton / Musician
Women
Famous
Beautiful Women
Department
Musician
Weakness
Fairly
Bachelor
Eligible
Off
Suppose
Makes
Well
Press
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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 / Musician
Convince
Do You Know
Noise
Good Guitar Me
Finally
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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 / Musician
Alive
Honorable
Position
Responsibility
Tradition
Original
Blues
Recognize
Tend
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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 / Musician
Buying
Nowhere
Hang
Spanish
Talked
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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.
Eric Clapton / Musician
Band
Always Better People
Big Fan
Better People Always
Sang
Musicians
Sing
Steve
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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 / Musician
Explanation
Needed
Safe
Music Me Nothing
Nobody
Beginning
Music Me Beginning
Intuitively
Whereas
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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Eric Clapton / Musician
Wisdom
Loneliness
Musician
Sadness
Wisdom Experience Men
Contained
Sought
Youngest
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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 / Musician
Combination
Fingertips
Easiest
Easiest Way
Strenuous
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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 / Musician
Chuck
Geography
Hearing
Music Culture Me
Berry
Bill
Sonny
Terry
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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 / Musician
Music
Curriculum
Do You Know
Loner
Niche
Village
Activities
Find
Part
Sport
Group
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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 / Musician
Guts
Propriety
Spilling
Me People Feel
Affect
Cycle
Handing
Observe
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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 / Musician
Family
Business
Fine
Inheritance
Pilgrim
Setting
Everybody
Will
Family People Will
Business People Will
Looking
Family Business People
Own
Definition
Establishing
Got
Some
Terms
Role
See
Some People
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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 / Musician
Bail
Crazy Things
Grateful
Having A Good Time
Survived
Time Good Music
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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 / Musician
Necks
Thrust
Yeah
Adjust
Arrow
Bow
Guitars
Oh Yeah
Shape
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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 / Musician
Discovery
Feel Good
Resources
Yeah
Inside
Good Character Your
Draw
Foremost
Inner
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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 / Musician
Armstrong
Coltrane
Formality
Jelly
Monk
Louis
Archie
Blues
Charles
John
Listened
Necessarily
Oliver
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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 / Musician
Inheritance
Pilgrim
Setting
Definition
Establishing
Suppose
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