Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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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It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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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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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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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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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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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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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.
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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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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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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
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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 just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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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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