Top 65 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

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.

Music became a healer for me.

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.

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

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

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.