Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTONI wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
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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 am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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