For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
ERIC CLAPTONBefore you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.
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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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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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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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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
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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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Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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 mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
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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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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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Music became a healer for me.
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