31 Eric Clapton Quotes

Eric Clapton quotes

1. Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?

2. Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.

3. Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?

4. And I say, 'Yes, you look wonderful tonight.'

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

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

9. 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.

10. To have ownership of something that powerful is something I'll never be able to get used to. It still knocks me out when I play it.

11. Some people talk about me like a revolutionary. That's nonsense; all I did was copy B.B. King.

12. If it ain't Mississippi black music it ain't worth a damn.

13. Vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!

14. He is a great person, as well as a great musician. And this guy sings like he was born down below Mississippi!

15. I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

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16. His fingers are directly wired to his soul.

17. I don't think he said 'nigger' he said 'wogs'. He definitely said, 'Keep Britain White'. Nobody cheered, but after he played another song, he did the same again. It was extraordinary - but he stood there being overtly offensive and racist. I was completely mystified as to why this man playing black music would behave this way.

1. My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

2. I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

11. You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

12. Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

13. I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

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