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

  Eric Clapton

  Solitude, Quiet, Quiet Life

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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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• 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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• Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

  Eric Clapton

  Funny, Guitar, Play

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• Music became a healer for me.

  Eric Clapton

  Healer

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

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

  Eric Clapton

  Believe, Thinking, Luck

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

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• I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitarist

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

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Forgiving, Body, Painful

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Thinking, People, Roles

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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.

  Eric Clapton

  Doctrine, Spirituality, Trustworthy

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

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