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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
Eric Clapton
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Eric Clapton
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 30
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Eric Patrick Clapton
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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.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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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.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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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.
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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.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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 the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.
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