The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
ERIC CLAPTONYeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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 don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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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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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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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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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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