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Me Quotes by Eric Clapton
- Music became a healer for me.
- The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
- 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 that…
- There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
- From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need…
- I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally…
- 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…
- 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 mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross…
- I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or…
- I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to…
- I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very…
- 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. As…
- The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and…
- Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
- My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long,…
- It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It…
- It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me,…
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