It’s been up to me to inspire me.
ERIC CLAPTONI saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I’ve always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters’ early records – only louder
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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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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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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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.
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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
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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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