I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it.… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
... whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it completely and… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick,… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
Let's make the best of the situation Before I finally go insane. Please don't say we'll never find a way And tell me all… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
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… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite,… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
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.… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
