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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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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Business
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didnt need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation. – 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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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. – Aesop

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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Innovation

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

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Innovation

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? – Author Unknown

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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. – Jean Cocteau

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, Id think, how awful. – Karen Armstrong

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