The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
ERIC CLAPTONI like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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 thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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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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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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