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" 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. "

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" I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. "

Eric Clapton

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Talent

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" To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more. "

" I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. "

" Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. "

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening? "

" 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. "

" Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening. "

" 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. "

" I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire. "

" 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. "

" The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" 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

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Grateful

" 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. "

" The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. "

" I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten. "

" The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this. "

Eric Clapton

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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. "

" Music became a healer for me. "

" An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. "

" 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. "

" I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. "

" The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. "