“When he first came to England, you know English people have a very big thing towards a spade. They really love that magic thing, the sexual thing. They all fall for that sort of thing. Everybody and his brother in England still sort of think that spades have big dicks. And Jimi came over and exploit…”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: Jimi Hendrix, England, Big Dicks, Racial Slurs, Racial Stereotypes
“If I can't see The Who, then I'm not really bothered and I won't listen to them very much. They're tight and they're all very heavy, but musically I don't think they are going in a very extreme direction. They stick to their records and things like that.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: The Who, LIve Music
“People can go out and buy a record, you know, like an Englebert Humperdink [sic] record, then everybody can say it's the best record available. Which is rubbish. Doesn't mean to say because it's popular it's the best music.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: Engelbert Humperdinck, Records, Rubbish, Pop music
“Music thrives wildly in England because they are jealous of someone else's success. They're jealous so they have to do better.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: Music, England, Jealousy
“I get quite bored listening to myself play the guitar because I'm not a very good audience. If there are people there, you go further.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: Bored, Guitar, LIve Music
“It's a very jealous thing. They're afraid of American music being too far ahead of them. They've got this fantasy, they deny it.”— Eric Clapton, rollingstone.comTagged: Jealous, Envy, British Invasion, Xenophobia, American Music