Lately I’ve been running on faith.
ERIC CLAPTONIn playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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.
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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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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.’
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