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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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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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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.
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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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