Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
ERIC CLAPTONI’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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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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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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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 know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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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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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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