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

  Eric Clapton

  Risk, Trying, Powerless

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

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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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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• 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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• For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

  Eric Clapton

  Spirituality, Trustworthy, Old Soul

  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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• 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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• I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

  Eric Clapton

  Inferiority, Egomaniacs, Inferiority Complex

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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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• 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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• Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

  Eric Clapton

  Up To You, Questioning, Asks

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

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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 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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• 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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• The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

  Eric Clapton

  Home, My Family

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