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" Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green. "

Eric Clapton

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" 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

Good

Grateful

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

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

" 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. "

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

Eric Clapton

Hear

Match

" 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. "

Eric Clapton

Beautiful

Famous

" I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. "

" 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. "

Eric Clapton

Mean

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eric Clapton

Voice

Man

" 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. "

" Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. "

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

" I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. "

Eric Clapton

Acoustic

Enjoy

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

" 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. "

" 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

Know

Never

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "