I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
ERIC CLAPTONIn 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.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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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 think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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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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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.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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