For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
ERIC CLAPTONIt sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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Plant your love and let it grow.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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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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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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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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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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