217 Quotes by Eric Clapton

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.

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.

Early in my childhood, when I was about six or seven, I began to get the feeling that there was something different about me.

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.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I’m just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn’t know where I was going, and I didn’t really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles – all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on.

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

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

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.