Music became a healer for me. — Eric Clapton

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. — Eric Clapton

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I’ve had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don’t particularly like it, but I don’t see a way ’round it. — Eric Clapton

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league. — Eric Clapton

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

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

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way. — Eric Clapton

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

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance. — Eric Clapton

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. — Eric Clapton

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

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. — Eric Clapton

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees. — Eric Clapton

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

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you. — Eric Clapton

Ginger baker saw something about me that i never thought before, Ginger baker would say it is about time. — Eric Clapton

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away. — Eric Clapton

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there. — Eric Clapton

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

I grew up playing in clubs–that’s my spiritual stomping ground. — Eric Clapton

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing–something I couldn’t wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn’t really enjoy. — 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. — Eric Clapton

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up. — Eric Clapton

Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it. — Eric Clapton

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton