Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

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.

Clarence Clemons

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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Major Taylor
- Great
- May
- Success
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

Ed Bradley
- Up
- Remember
- Growing
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

Kate Bush
- Friend
- Radio
- Plays
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Barbara Kingsolver
- Time
- World
- Reality
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Jack Henry Abbott
- Life
- Experience
- Night
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

Hans Jonas