90+ Eric Clapton Quotes On Prince, Stevie Ray Vaughan And Guitar

Eric Clapton is a British musician and singer-songwriter who is considered one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He is best known for his work with the Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos. He has also had a successful solo career, releasing hits such as "Layla" and "Tears in Heaven". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Eric Clapton on prince, stevie ray vaughan, guitar.

Top 10 Eric Clapton Quotes

1. Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
2. 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.
3. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
4. All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
5. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
6. Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
7. Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

Eric Clapton Short Quotes

• I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
• Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
• They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.
• Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
• I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'
• Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
• Plant your love and let it grow.
• Lately I've been running on faith.
• And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.
• I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

Eric Clapton Quotes About Guitar

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

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

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. — Eric Clapton

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder — Eric Clapton

When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do. — Eric Clapton

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

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

Eric Clapton Quotes About Yeah

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost. — Eric Clapton

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Quotes About People

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

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. — Eric Clapton

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee. — Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Quotes About Music

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

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

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

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. — Eric Clapton

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

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.' — Eric Clapton

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

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. — Eric Clapton

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 — Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Famous Quotes And Sayings

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips. — Eric Clapton

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you. — Eric Clapton

When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow. — Eric Clapton

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

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

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

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. — Eric Clapton

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. — 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

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

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven Will it be the same If I saw you in heaven I must be strong, and carry on Cause I know I don't belong Here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way, through night and day Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven — Eric Clapton

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more. — Eric Clapton

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. — Eric Clapton

When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do. — Eric Clapton

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good. — Eric Clapton

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious. — Eric Clapton

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. — Eric Clapton

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine. — Eric Clapton

Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made. — Eric Clapton

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. — Eric Clapton

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

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this. — Eric Clapton

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following. — 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 fear and confusion. — Eric Clapton

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. — Eric Clapton

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible. — 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

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

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note. — Eric Clapton

I know there will be no more tears in heaven. — Eric Clapton

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself. — Eric Clapton

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe. — Eric Clapton

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. 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

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you. — Eric Clapton

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain. — 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

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth. — Eric Clapton

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play. — Eric Clapton

It's been up to me to inspire me. — Eric Clapton

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

Life Lessons by Eric Clapton

1. Eric Clapton's career has been a testament to the power of resilience and hard work, as he overcame personal struggles and professional setbacks to become one of the most respected and acclaimed musicians of all time.
2. His music is a reminder that it is possible to turn tragedy into art, and to use creativity and passion to overcome adversity.
3. Eric Clapton's story also teaches us the importance of staying true to yourself and your vision, no matter what challenges you face.