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The Yardbirds came in to the ...

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.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

I thought, 'My God, this is l...

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

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

It's very difficult to explai...

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

My driving philosophy about m...

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.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

Time can bring you down, time...

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

The music scene as I look at ...

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.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

All I am certain of right now...

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 140 quotes

Give me a guitar and I'll pla...

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

Lately I've been running on f...

Lately I've been running on faith.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

My identity shifted when I go...

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.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

I found my God in music and t...

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

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Like a fool, I fell in love w...

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

Every time you pick up your g...

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

I have no problem with religi...

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

Whatever your standing in lif...

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.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

When all the original blues g...

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 140 quotes

Very much like that, and very...

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 140 quotes

The first one was quite cheap...

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 140 quotes

To sing in a lower key is har...

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

I don't know if I believe in ...

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

Eric Clapton 140 quotes

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