When I look for what I’m going to listen to I go backwards. I’m always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out ‘how do I get in the fast lane going that way?’. I’m going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
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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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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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.
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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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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Music became a healer for me.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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