Eric Clapton Quotes

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

Eric Clapton Blind Faith

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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • You
  • Difference
  • Driven

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Like
  • Queen
  • Elizabeth

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Progress

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Confident

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Acting
  • Going
  • Actress

• Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

  

  Van Morrison
  • May
  • Soul
  • Today

• It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • People
  • School
  • Guy

• I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Art
  • Strong