In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.
Eric ClaptonMusic became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
Eric ClaptonThey 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 ClaptonIt's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. 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