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

#music #power-of-music #music

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

— Eric Clapton

#love

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#music #ray-charles #soul #music

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

#forgiveness

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

#america #best #british #compilation #for the people

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

#better #far #know #league #level

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#am #blues #guitarist #i #i am

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

#go #guitar #i #mean #most

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

#discovering #doing #i #i can #know

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

#early #even #go #i #kids