When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
ERIC CLAPTONEvery time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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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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There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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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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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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