Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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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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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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It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.
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When you’re onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it’s very artificial. You can’t really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.
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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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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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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
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