Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
ERIC CLAPTONAlthough they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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When 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.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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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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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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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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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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