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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. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#go #guitar #i #mean #most

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#anything #beginning #could #else #explanation

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

#bachelor #beautiful #beautiful women #because #company

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

#convince #did #difficult #finally #get

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time. ↗

— David Copperfield

#deck #go #i #me #off

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. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bit #chore #enjoy #get #guitar

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#assessment #criminal #document #ever #formal

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. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#definition #establishing #everybody #everyone #family

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

— Eric Clapton

#cold #evening #i #knock #love

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#control #dependent #emotional #lot #mind