I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.Eric ClaptonTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
“I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.”Eric ClaptonBerry
“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 didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.”Justin Townes EarleBlues
“Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.”Neneh CherryBlues
“People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.”
“In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.”Eric ClaptonExpress
“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 ClaptonAddictive
“The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.”Lucinda WilliamsBlues