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 CLAPTONThe music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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You 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.
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They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
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Lately I’ve been running on faith.
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One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
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This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure 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 am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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