Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time. — 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
I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized… — 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
[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image