217 Quotes by Eric Clapton

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

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

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

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.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.