I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
ERIC CLAPTONBefore you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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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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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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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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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Music became a healer for me.
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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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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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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
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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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Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
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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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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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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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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