For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
ERIC CLAPTONFor me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
ERIC CLAPTONThe only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
ERIC CLAPTONOne of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTONMusic became a healer for me.
ERIC CLAPTONI 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.
ERIC CLAPTONAn obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
ERIC CLAPTONI saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
ERIC CLAPTONThey found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
ERIC CLAPTONBefore you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
ERIC CLAPTONThey looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
ERIC CLAPTONThe first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
ERIC CLAPTONIt 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.
ERIC CLAPTONThere are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There’s one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.
ERIC CLAPTONVery 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.
ERIC CLAPTONIt’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.
ERIC CLAPTONWould you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
ERIC CLAPTON