Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
ERIC CLAPTONLeave 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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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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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Although 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.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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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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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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