Eric Clapton quote: "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."

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac...
ERIC CLAPTON

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
ERIC CLAPTON

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to m...
ERIC CLAPTON

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It h...
ERIC CLAPTON

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. N...
ERIC CLAPTON

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, fo...
ERIC CLAPTON

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
ERIC CLAPTON

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just ...
ERIC CLAPTON

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Cha...
ERIC CLAPTON

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive...
ERIC CLAPTON

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very ...
ERIC CLAPTON

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and ...
ERIC CLAPTON

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

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or al...
ERIC CLAPTON

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...
ERIC CLAPTON

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are...
ERIC CLAPTON

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at eac...
ERIC CLAPTON

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right co...
ERIC CLAPTON

I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that y...
ERIC CLAPTON

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose beca...
ERIC CLAPTON

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I wa...
ERIC CLAPTON

I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds,
ERIC CLAPTON

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around ...
ERIC CLAPTON

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could t...
ERIC CLAPTON

Riding With The King.
ERIC CLAPTON

La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait...
ERIC CLAPTON

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat ...
ERIC CLAPTON

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

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous ...
ERIC CLAPTON

Music became a healer for me.
ERIC CLAPTON

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe ...
ERIC CLAPTON

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I c...
ERIC CLAPTON

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the nec...
ERIC CLAPTON

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
ERIC CLAPTON

For me, it's about the music. I'm just the messenger, and I hope to do it as long as I live.
ERIC CLAPTON

I just think I'm OK, ... The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And s...
ERIC CLAPTON

What gives him the right to do that? ... I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like po...
ERIC CLAPTON

Nathan is probably the closest friend I have in the music world. He's the most supportive and caring...
ERIC CLAPTON

Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house f...
ERIC CLAPTON

I think I probably am more influenced by the overall groove of the track, not even the song. If we p...
ERIC CLAPTON

It's not a pretence. I will have to work to support the way we live.
ERIC CLAPTON

It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the la...
ERIC CLAPTON

I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than...
ERIC CLAPTON

I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,
ERIC CLAPTON

it's been up to me to inspire me.
ERIC CLAPTON

Let's make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don't say we'll never fi...
ERIC CLAPTON

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you'v...
ERIC CLAPTON

It's very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, n...
ERIC CLAPTON

Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete.
ERIC CLAPTON

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of...
ERIC CLAPTON

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to expres...
ERIC CLAPTON

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just v...
ERIC CLAPTON

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some peopl...
ERIC CLAPTON

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn...
ERIC CLAPTON

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously...
ERIC CLAPTON

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up an...
ERIC CLAPTON

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to str...
ERIC CLAPTON

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

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro...
ERIC CLAPTON

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it com...
ERIC CLAPTON

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
ERIC CLAPTON

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express m...
ERIC CLAPTON

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the trad...
ERIC CLAPTON

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
ERIC CLAPTON

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening...
ERIC CLAPTON

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
ERIC CLAPTON

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA

I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU

I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW

If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK

Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER

Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU

When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER

Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW

One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER

Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW

Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER

Remembering is something God asks us to do over �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER

Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER

The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN

I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL

The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER

The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON

If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER

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.

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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.

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