Lately I’ve been running on faith.
ERIC CLAPTONI just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
More Eric Clapton Quotes
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Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.
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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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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 remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me – it resonated.
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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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I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I’m handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle.
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I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing – something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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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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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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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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I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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