217 Quotes by Eric Clapton

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

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don’t like yours and you don’t like mine.

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn’t commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn’t be able to drink any more if I was dead.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn’t need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

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.

If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.

And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.

It’s been up to me to inspire me.