My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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I couldn’t believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, ‘This is fantastic.’
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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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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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.
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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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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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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 never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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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.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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