Eric Clapton Quotes - Page 2

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

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

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

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.

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

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

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

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

Lately I've been running on faith.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

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.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

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

Music became a healer for me.

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.

Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven Will it be the same If I saw you in heaven I must be strong, and carry on Cause I know I don't belong Here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way, through night and day Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven

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.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

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.