Eric Clapton Quotes
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An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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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.
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I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
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I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
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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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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
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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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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.
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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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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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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.
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I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
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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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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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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.
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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 got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.
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When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.
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