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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

Eric Clapton God Music Prayer

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

Eric Clapton Eric Clapton Music Religion

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

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Blues Music Ray Charles Soul

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

Eric Clapton Blues Music Power Of Music

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

Eric Clapton Blues Music Robert Johnson

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Family Myself People

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Family People Looking

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Beautiful Women I Am

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Family Fear Me

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Time Good Grateful

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

Eric Clapton Powerful Bible Blues

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

~ Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton Music Father Experience
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