Eric Clapton Quotes

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• I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
• I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
• I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
• I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
• I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
• I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
• I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
• In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
• It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
• 'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into…
• The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
• The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
• 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 or…
• One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big…
• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a…
• Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know,…
• I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts,…
• I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and…
• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to…
• I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross…

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