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.
ERIC CLAPTONThe first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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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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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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