Eric Clapton

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

— Eric Clapton

It's been up to me to inspire me.

— Eric Clapton

Music became a healer for me.

— Eric Clapton

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

— Eric Clapton

Plant your love and let it grow.

— Eric Clapton

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

— Eric Clapton

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

— Eric Clapton

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

— Eric Clapton

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

— Eric Clapton

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

— Eric Clapton

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

— Eric Clapton

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

— Eric Clapton

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

— Eric Clapton

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

— Eric Clapton

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

— Eric Clapton

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

— Eric Clapton

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike…

— Eric Clapton

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've…

— Eric Clapton

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably…

— Eric Clapton

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old…

— Eric Clapton

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

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind…

— Eric Clapton

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten…

— Eric Clapton

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt…

— Eric Clapton

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their…

— Eric Clapton

My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure…

— Eric Clapton

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me…

— Eric Clapton

... whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with…

— Eric Clapton

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more…

— Eric Clapton

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick…

— Eric Clapton

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about…

— Eric Clapton

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or…

— Eric Clapton

And how do I choose and where do I draw the line Between truth and necessary pain? And how do I know…

— Eric Clapton

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

— Eric Clapton

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

— Eric Clapton

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

— Eric Clapton

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

— Eric Clapton

Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.

— Eric Clapton

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

— Eric Clapton

Lately I've been running on faith.

— Eric Clapton