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You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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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.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
Eric Clapton Cream -
Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
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.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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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 Blind Faith -
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.
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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 Blind Faith -
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith