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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
Eric Clapton
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Eric Clapton
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 30
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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.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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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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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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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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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 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.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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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.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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.
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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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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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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 can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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