For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
ERIC CLAPTONThe toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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In 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.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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Plant your love and let it grow.
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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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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.
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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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