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Eric Clapton Inspirational Quotes (67)

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For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.
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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.
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I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
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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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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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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.
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The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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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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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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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
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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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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.
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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
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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.
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