Clapton Quotes
32 Clapton quotes by 26 unique authors
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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
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I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist.…
— Ian Anderson
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I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than…
— B B King
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... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael…
— Barry Goldberg
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Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide…
— Unknown Author
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I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as…
— Albert Lee
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos,…
— Joe Perry
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Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
— Gregg Allman
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I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
— Sharon Horgan
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I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close…
— Unknown Author
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Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
— Carole King
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I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like…
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
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When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time,…
— Carla Bruni
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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 and…
— Dhani Harrison
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My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues…
— Tony Iommi
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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
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I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.
— Eddie Van Halen
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
— Eddie Van Halen
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through…
— Eddie Van Halen
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
— Neil Innes
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I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the…
— Bruno Mars
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The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading.…
— Joe Perry
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I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot…
— Steve Perry
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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 other. And that…
— Carlos Santana
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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
Who Wrote These Clapton Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 32 Clapton Quotes, led by these top contributors: