Clarence Clemons Quotes
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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.
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I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
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I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.
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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.
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Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.
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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.
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Tell-all books are boring.
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
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Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.
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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.
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I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
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It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
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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.
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I look forward to working out every day.
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I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.
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You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
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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.
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I have faith in the judicial system.
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Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
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Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.