Eric Clapton Quotes
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One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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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.
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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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.
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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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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.
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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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.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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Lately I've been running on faith.
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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It's been up to me to inspire me.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.