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.
ERIC CLAPTONWhen all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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 never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I’m not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don’t play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I’ve always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Music became a healer for me.
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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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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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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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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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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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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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