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1. "It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music." ~ Eric Clapton
2. "'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes." ~ Eric Clapton
3. "Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening." ~ Eric Clapton
4. "I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?" ~ Eric Clapton
5. "There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head." ~ Eric Clapton
6. "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." ~ Eric Clapton
7. "I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department." ~ Eric Clapton
8. "Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin." ~ Eric Clapton
9. "At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work." ~ Eric Clapton
10. "Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest." ~ Eric Clapton
11. "An obsession is where something will not leave your mind." ~ Eric Clapton
12. "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." ~ Eric Clapton
13. "Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over." ~ Eric Clapton
14. "I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else." ~ Eric Clapton
15. "Music became a healer for me." ~ Eric Clapton
16. "I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it." ~ Eric Clapton
17. "The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life." ~ Eric Clapton
18. "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
19. "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." ~ Eric Clapton
20. "If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go." ~ Eric Clapton
21. "Would you know my nameIf I saw you in heavenWill it be the sameIf I saw you in heavenI must be strong, and carry onCause I know I don't belongHere in heavenWould you hold my handIf I saw you in heavenWould you help me standIf I saw you in heavenI'll find my way, through night and dayCause I know I just can't stayHere in heaven" ~ Eric Clapton
22. "I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me." ~ Eric Clapton
23. "My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it." ~ Eric Clapton
24. "Watching him, I understood for the first time how you could really live music, how you could listen to it completely and make it come alive, so that it was part of your life." ~ Eric Clapton
25. "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
26. "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

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