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

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

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didnt fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldnt find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. – Eric Clapton