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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Eric Clapton

One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTON

Benefit Learning Mouth Myself Shut
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
ERIC CLAPTON

Alive Blue Music Myself Original Position Recognition Start Tradition
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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Heaven Myself Name See Yourself
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
ERIC CLAPTON

Blame See Sight Yourself
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Eyes Father Myself Personal Realization
And I don’t like having my picture taken. I’m almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
ERIC CLAPTON

Camera Myself Photograph Soul Steal Thinking
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Himself Man Music Old Skills Skin
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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Business Definition Establish Family Inheritance Kind Live Myself People Pilgrimage Thinking
I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.
ERIC CLAPTON

Blow Catch Day Man Walk Yourself
I grew up playing in clubs – that’s my spiritual stomping ground.
ERIC CLAPTON

Ground Growth Myself Play Spiritual
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
ERIC CLAPTON

Addiction Boredom Guitar Kind Myself People Sound
If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.
ERIC CLAPTON

Guitar Hands Place Yourself
I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
ERIC CLAPTON

Believe Fortunate Myself Thinking
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
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Difficult Goodness Guitar Management Mom Myself Worth
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
ERIC CLAPTON

Music Myself Spirituality Trust Vehicle
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.
ERIC CLAPTON

Accessible Appearance Difficult Draw Greatness Myself

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