You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
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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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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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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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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 know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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.
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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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If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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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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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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