Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.
ERIC CLAPTONYou were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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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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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.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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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.
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I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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