Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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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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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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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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.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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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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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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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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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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