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Eric Clapton Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her makeup and brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me, Do I look all right?
And I say, ‘Yes, you look wonderful tonight.’”
— Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight
Tagged: Makeup, Blonde Hair, wonderful
“Music became a healer for me, and I learned to listen with all my being.”
— Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography
Tagged: Music, Healing
“It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.”
— Eric Clapton
Tagged: Painful, Emotional Crises, Music, expression
“Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way people talked about me as if I weren't in the room.”
— Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography
Tagged: Feeling Different, Childhood
“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.”
— Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography
Tagged: Settling Down
“Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.”
— Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography
Tagged: Music, Politics, Religion, Bullshit, God
“In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.”
— Eric Clapton, Clapton: The Autobiography
Tagged: Suicide, Alcoholism, Rock Bottom
“I'm determined to stick around as long as I can. I'm watching everything. I go to the doctor's at the slightest sign of anything.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton on Addiction, Cream's Brilliance, the Future of the Guitar
Tagged: Longevity, Health
“I get quite bored listening to myself play the guitar because I'm not a very good audience. If there are people there, you go further.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Bored, Guitar, LIve Music
“Music thrives wildly in England because they are jealous of someone else's success. They're jealous so they have to do better.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Music, England, Jealousy
“People can go out and buy a record, you know, like an Englebert Humperdink [sic] record, then everybody can say it's the best record available. Which is rubbish. Doesn't mean to say because it's popular it's the best music.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Engelbert Humperdinck, Records, Rubbish, Pop music
“One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.”
— Eric Clapton, 20 Essential Lessons Eric Clapton's Learned Over the Years
Tagged: Silence, Beneficial, Shut Your Mouth
“Addiction doesn't negotiate.”
— Eric Clapton, 20 Essential Lessons Eric Clapton's Learned Over the Years
Tagged: Addiction, Negotiation
“If I can't see The Who, then I'm not really bothered and I won't listen to them very much. They're tight and they're all very heavy, but musically I don't think they are going in a very extreme direction. They stick to their records and things like that.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: The Who, LIve Music
“Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant. Olivier wrote that the greatest thing you could aspire to in life was to be a good servant.”
— Eric Clapton, 20 Essential Lessons Eric Clapton's Learned Over the Years
Tagged: Fatherhood, Self-Obsession, Service, Olivier
“I just have to face the guy that I became when I was fueled on drugs and alcohol. It's incomprehensible to me, in a way, that I got so far out. And there was no one to challenge me. Because I may have become quite intimidating. People said they couldn't challenge me because I came back twice as strong.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton on Addiction, Cream's Brilliance, the Future of the Guitar
Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol, Recovery
“When he first came to England, you know English people have a very big thing towards a spade. They really love that magic thing, the sexual thing. They all fall for that sort of thing. Everybody and his brother in England still sort of think that spades have big dicks. And Jimi came over and exploited that to the limit, the fucking tee. Everybody fell for it.”
— Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Jimi Hendrix, England, Big Dicks, Racial Slurs, Racial Stereotypes, Spade
“Up until the point when I went into treatment, I'd never asked for help from anybody. I would rather not have known the answer than have to ask you for help. That's why treatment was fascinating for me. They deliberately put in your path as many things as they could that required you to ask someone else how it's done. Making a cup of coffee: There's a machine over there with all these components that you've got to put together to make a cup of coffee, and I just didn't know how. So I had to ask someone. Over and over, I had to ask for help. Very clever.”
— Eric Clapton, 20 Essential Lessons Eric Clapton's Learned Over the Years
Tagged: rehab, Addiction, Treatment, Dependence, Asking For Help
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