Eric Clapton Quotes

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, Evening, Rest

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

Nothing, Before, America

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.
Eric Clapton

Mind, Emotional, Control

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.
Eric Clapton

Great, Place, Sense

Music became a healer for me.
Eric Clapton

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

Learned, Keep, Mouth

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
Eric Clapton

Quite, Status, Rare

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
Eric Clapton

Polite, Celebrity, Toughest

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

Great, Around, Difficult

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
Eric Clapton

Music, Find, Group

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

Love, Gift, Listening

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

Music, Someone, Pretty

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

Past, Kids, Used

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.
Eric Clapton

Wanted, Head, Strike

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Nationality: British

Born: March 30, 1945

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