Eric Clapton quotes

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. (Eric Clapton)
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. View quote
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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. View quote
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Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. View quote
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Music became a healer for me. View quote
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[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son. View quote
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head. View quote
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. View quote
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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 anymore if I was dead. View quote
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Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. View quote
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Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind. (Eric Clapton)
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. View quote
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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. View quote
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there. View quote
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I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. View quote
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I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening? View quote
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down. View quote
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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. View quote
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I 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Eric Clapton)
One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma. View quote
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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. View quote
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A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. View quote
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues. View quote
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