Quotes of Eric Clapton - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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 it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ I've felt that the only way to survive was with dignity, pride and courage. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ What gives him the right to do that?... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that? ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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, play like you.". ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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 any kind of border to get on there. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never find a way / And tell me all my love's in vain. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before. ”

- Eric Clapton

“ What gives him the right to do that?... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that? ”

- Eric Clapton

“ What gives him the right to do that?... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that? ”

- Eric Clapton

“ 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
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