I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he… — Carole King Copy Share Image
I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos. — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton. — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm the youngest of three boys, and my oldest brother was super into Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and played guitar. I… — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
“Don't you think women would be happier if Layla had a whole chorus about Eric Clapton watching Patti Boyd trying to climb… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There… — Merrell Fankhauser Copy Share Image
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry"… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night… — Barry Goldberg Copy Share Image
I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him. — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
It was pretty surreal because The Allman Brothers' 'Eat A Peach' and 'Live At The Fillmore East', and the Eric Clapton 'Layla'… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange,… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
I can't deny that Eric Clapton's and Eddie Van Halen's lead stuff has influenced a stack of people, but for me, it's… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
![“You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look…” quote by Lemmy Kilmister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84f/lemmy-kilmister-10138_benefits_you-ve-got-to-try-to-figure-out-which-is_2874205.jpg)
