Words matter. These are the best Clarence Clemons Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.
I’d rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.
I’ve been thinking about a cookbook. I’ve been making notes and promising myself I’ll do it some day. I have an idea for a cookbook and music together.
Rock-and-roll, to me, is very serious because we deal with the young people. We deal with people who need something, and that’s the same thing that a preacher does. He feeds you something that you need spiritually in your soul and in your makeup.
Asbury Park’s a special place for me. It’s where I really began playing.
I didn’t think I’d ever be a Michael Jackson fan. But… watching him move, watching him dance, is so encouraging for me. Because, in my mind, I can do all that stuff.
I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can’t scoop aside, can’t put in a corner.
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n’ roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don’t know why it happened, but it did happen.
Somebody said to me, ‘Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.’ That’s a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
It’s sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it’s a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It’s part of our history just gone.
As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I’ll be out there doing it. I’m going to keep going ’til I’m not there anymore. This is what’s keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.
To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
I have no agenda – just to be loved.
I look forward to working out every day.
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
It takes a village to run the Big Man – a village of doctors.
When a fan says, ‘Man, you saved my life; I heard ‘Jungleland’… and I cried… and I felt joy in my life again,’ that’s my hall of fame.
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you’re in, the harder you can rock.
How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I’ve been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
It’s a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
I always had this vision of what I wanted to do in life.
It’s a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don’t party anymore. I don’t miss it, either.
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
Tell-all books are boring.
God will give you no more than you can handle.
More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.
Death is not just the end, it’s the beginning.
When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don’t see a circus.
I couldn’t really trust anyone. Not completely.
Going through all of this physical stuff, it’s been a tough job. But I’ve loved every second of my life.
I’m always in the market for my acting.
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it’s like learning to ride a bike. You don’t forget it.
Of all the surgeries I’ve had, there’s not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.
Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.
Money is a hazard.
Working out has always been a way of life for me.
Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there’s been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I’m doing.
I never thought I’d be a, quote, ‘rock & roll star.’
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that’s flung against the sky and becomes a star.
What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.
Everybody calls me Big Man.
It’s love. It’s two men – two strong, very virile men – finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.
Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you’re doing.
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
The Philadelphia audiences, they’re like our home crowd.
I know that one day I’m going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.
I have faith in the judicial system.
