They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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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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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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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 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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I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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