If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
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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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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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.
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I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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When I’m wrong it’s never meant for you, so don’t confuse my love with what I do.
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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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