I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
ERIC CLAPTONI never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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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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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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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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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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 blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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