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Eric Clapton
British
Musician
Born:
Mar 30
,
1945
First
Guitar
Me
Music
People
You
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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Eric Clapton
Mouth
Beneficial
Most
Learned
How
Keep
Ever
Things
Shut
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
Eric Clapton
Life
Me
Trials
My Life
Relief
Given
Inspiration
Blues
Turned
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
Quality
Guitar
Made
Way
Guitar Playing
Echo
Voice
Could
Instance
Primarily
Simulate
Instrument
Were
Human
Intentions
Created
Interests
Original
Human Voice
Tone
Playing
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
Eric Clapton
Love
Gift
Listening
Think
Part
Well
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
Eric Clapton
Music
Family
Me
Emotions
Fear
Confusion
Relating
Could
Wipe
Healer
Learned
Became
Listen
Being
Found
Away
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
Me
Hurt
Guitar
Year
Gave
Tried
Fingertips
Up
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Mean
Much
Grandparents
Play
Music became a healer for me.
Eric Clapton
Music
Me
Healer
Became
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
Eric Clapton
Life
Solitude
Quiet Life
Like
Quiet
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Eric Clapton
You
Control
Something
Risk
Over
Powerless
Trying
There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
Eric Clapton
Me
Something
Head
Match
Hear
Express
Desire
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
Me
People
Guitar
Addictive
Kind
Border
Cross
Could
Hypnotic
Sound
Get
Any
Mean
Room
Full
Amplified
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton
Music
You
Responsibility
Gone
Honorable
Alive
Recognize
Some
Pretty
Someone
Guys
Tend
Tradition
Blues
Realize
Original
Keep
Start
Position
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
Eric Clapton
Mind
Will
Something
Obsession
Leave
Where
Your
In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
Eric Clapton
Myself
Gift
Greatest Gift
Way
Willingness
Suppose
Felt
Greatest
Express
Playing
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.
Eric Clapton
Good
You
Guitar
Months
Adjust
Guitars
Shape
Thrust
Know
Most
Bow
Couple
Well
Got
Yeah
Arrow
Very
Oh
Just
Oh Yeah
After
Mean
Straight
Them
Turned
Keep
Necks
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.
Eric Clapton
Wisdom
Music
Loneliness
Experience
World
Sadness
Father
Black
Men
Musician
Contained
Sought
Because
Boy
Years
Interested
Youngest
Ever
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
Eric Clapton
Beautiful
Women
Weakness
Like
Beautiful Women
Department
Just
Company
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.
Eric Clapton
Me
Seen
Style
Before
Nothing
Back
Way
Out
Seemed
Mystery
Had
Come
Like
Obviously
How
America
Going
Tuning
Roots
Ever
Nowhere
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
God
You
Better
Opportunity
Harmless
Way
Out
Given
Put
Talent
Know
Does
Got
God-Given
Really
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
Eric Clapton
Good
Me
You
Noise
Worth
Guitar
Difficult
Finally
Out
Able
Seem
Something
Do You Know
Know
Make
Get
Did
Just
While
Grandmother
Convince
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.
Eric Clapton
Musicians
People
Better
Thought
Big
Band
Guy
Lead
Never
Like
Steve
Sing
Always
Sings
Big Fan
Up
Front
Just
Where
Wanted
Fan
Sang
Who
Play
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.
Eric Clapton
Me
You
Remember
Made
Big
Chuck
Summer
Chuck Berry
Way
Berry
Charisma
He
Buddy
Buddy Holly
Know
Looked
Because
Got
His
Lot
Impression
Very
Holly
Exposed
Things
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.
Eric Clapton
Music
You
Group
Kid
Kind
Would
Find
Loner
Part
Do You Know
Like
Know
Sport
Fit
Very
Curriculum
Much
Really
Village
Activities
Niche
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.
Eric Clapton
Great
First
Own
Sense
Back
Security
My Own
Fact
Obscurity
Great Sense
First Place
Because
Without
Leave
Doing
Go
Been
Loss
Bands
Did
Place
Choose
Based
Enjoying
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.
Eric Clapton
Music
Time
Me
You
Better
Musically
Out
League
Know
Although
Than
Far
Theoretical
Level
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.
Eric Clapton
Time
You
New Things
Pain
Assure
Pleasure
Tour
New
Know
Doing
Mixture
Discovering
Lot
Moment
Things
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