I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
ERIC CLAPTONI think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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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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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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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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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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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 don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
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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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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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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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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
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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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