Eric Clapton Quotes

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• Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

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  Bullshit, Way

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

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  Guitar, Play, Lasts

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• Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

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  Suffering, Needs, Helping

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

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  Confusion, Wipe, Found

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

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  Music, Philosophy, Rock N Roll

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• You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

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  Crazy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

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  Mouths, Beneficial

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• All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

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  Heart, Path, Cradle

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• Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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  Risk, Trying, Powerless

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• In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

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  Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol

  "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography". Book by Eric Clapton, October 9, 2007.

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• 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, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

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  Summer, Suicide, Memories

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• It's been up to me to inspire me.

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  Inspire

  "Supergroup Cream rises again" by Gordon Isfeld, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2005.

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• I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

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  Thinking, People, Roles

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• I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

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  Solitude, Quiet, Quiet Life

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• Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

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  Song, Judging, Judgement

  Song: Before You Accuse Me, Album: Journeyman, 1989

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• the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

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  Forgiving, Body, Painful

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• Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

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  Music, Helping Others, People

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• When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

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  Responsibility, Guy, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven Will it be the same If I saw you in heaven I must be strong, and carry on Cause I know I don't belong Here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way, through night and day Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven

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  Strong, Night, Hands

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• There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

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  Dream, Queens, Mean

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• For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

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  Music, Philosophical, Feet

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

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  Romantic, Love You, Eye

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• Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

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  Names, Heaven, Unanswered Questions

  "Tears in Heaven" (song) (1992).

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• I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

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  Believe, Thinking, Luck

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

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  Doctrine, Spirituality, Trustworthy

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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