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Eric Clapton (Musician)

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

— Eric Clapton mind

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. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

— Eric Clapton people

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

— Eric Clapton power

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

— Eric Clapton music

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

— Eric Clapton will

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

— Eric Clapton men

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

— Eric Clapton life

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

— Eric Clapton learn

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

— Eric Clapton life

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

— Eric Clapton man

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

— Eric Clapton desire

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

— Eric Clapton change

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 art

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 people

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

— Eric Clapton live

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

— Eric Clapton choice

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

— Eric Clapton wisdom

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

— Eric Clapton love

Music became a healer for me.

— Eric Clapton music

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

— Eric Clapton family

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

— Eric Clapton women

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

— Eric Clapton love

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

— Eric Clapton

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

— Eric Clapton believe

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

— Eric Clapton character

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