Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth30 March 1945
CityRipley, England
Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.
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.
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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 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.
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
Lately I've been running on faith.
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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 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.
I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.