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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. "

Eric Clapton

Human

Voice

Tone

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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. "

" Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is. "

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma. "

" The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. "

" One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. "

" I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. "

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Clubs

Ground

" Music became a healer for me. "

" It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head. "

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Hear

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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Guitar