They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
ERIC CLAPTONI’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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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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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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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 first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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