I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
ERIC CLAPTONBut 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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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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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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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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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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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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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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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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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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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