I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
ERIC CLAPTONLike a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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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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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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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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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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There 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.
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I wish I could write easily. I’m one of those guys who’s visited by the muse when things are dire.
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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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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