Eric Clapton

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

— Eric Clapton

#ever #how #i #keep #learned

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

#cheap #expensive #first #folks #gained

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#being #celebrity #i #polite #suppose

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

#bits #difficult #drawings #great #guys

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#i #i love #i think #listening #love

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

#cause #fantasy #fantasy world #front #gone

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

#got #head #i #know #me

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

#does #given #god #got #harmless

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#over #powerless #risk #something #trying

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

— Eric Clapton

#am #blues #guitarist #i #i am