Quote by Eric Clapton
Its been very important throughout my career that Ive met all the

Its been very important throughout my career that Ive met all the guys Ive copied, because at each stage theyve said, Dont play like me, play like you. – Eric Clapton

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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and its a pretty honorable position to be in. – Eric Clapton

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Music
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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

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Experience
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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. Everyones got their own definition. – Eric Clapton

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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. – Jean Cocteau

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. – Charles Baudelaire

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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. – Jean De La Bruyere

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