It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
ERIC CLAPTONGiven the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
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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 just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
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Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn’t want to meet Johnny Rotten.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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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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