Eric Quote by Carla Bruni

When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.

— Elias

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

— Mick Taylor

I met Kid Rock when I was probably 12 or 13-years-old and we quickly became best friends.

— Uncle Kracker

I love Eric Clapton.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends…

— Boy George

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

— Neal Schon

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found…

— Amor Towles

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew…

— Charles McPherson

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious…

— Dhani Harrison

We went back to England later on with Bob Dylan, and we met George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. That was a pretty big deal…

— Mike Campbell

I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

— Carole King

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began…

— John Carter Cash