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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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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They 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.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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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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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I 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.
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But 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.
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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 blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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