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.
ERIC CLAPTONWhen I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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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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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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It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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 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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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It’s been up to me to inspire me.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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