“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.com
“The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same—95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.”— Eric Clapton, amazon.com