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.
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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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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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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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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Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.
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You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
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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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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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The blues are what I’ve turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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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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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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Music became a healer for me.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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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