Eric Clapton Quotes

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

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Play, Lasts

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Confusion, Wipe, Found

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Suffering, Needs, Helping

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Bullshit, Way

  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.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophy, Rock N Roll

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

  Eric Clapton

  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.

  Eric Clapton

  Heart, Path, Cradle

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• It's been up to me to inspire me.

  Eric Clapton

  Inspire

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

  Eric Clapton

  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.

  Eric Clapton

  Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Song, Judging, Judgement

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

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Suicide, Memories

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

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• Plant your love and let it grow.

  Eric Clapton

  Romantic, Plant, Grows

  Song: Let It Grow, Album: 461 Ocean Boulevard, 1974

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• An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

  Eric Clapton

  Mind, Obsession

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  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.

  Eric Clapton

  Responsibility, Guy, Gone

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

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Music, Philosophical, Feet

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

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• My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

  Eric Clapton

  Two, Musical, Mind

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

  Eric Clapton

  Names, Heaven, Unanswered Questions

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Solitude, Quiet, Quiet Life

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• But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, Thinking, Guitar

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• Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy

  Song: Hugry

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Dream, Queens, Mean

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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

  Eric Clapton

  Strong, Night, Hands

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