Eric Clapton Quotes

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

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.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or seventh grade I went over and played it and immediately I was super excited by the whole thing.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

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.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

I play the guitar a little bit.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Really young kids are into guitars.

I was a guitar player first off.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.