Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTONAnd if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.
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I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don’t want to go anywhere, and that’s not bad for someone who always used to run.
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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’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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Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
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It’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.
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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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To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.’
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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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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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