I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTONThey found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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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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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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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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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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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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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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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 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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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