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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.'
Written by Clarence Clemons
I look forward to working out every day.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
Written by Clarence Clemons
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
Written by Clarence Clemons
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
Written by Clarence Clemons
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
Written by Clarence Clemons
When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
Written by Clarence Clemons
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I was a born rock n' roll sax player.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I grew up with a very religious background.
Written by Clarence Clemons
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
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.
Written by Clarence Clemons
To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.
Written by Clarence Clemons
It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.
Written by Clarence Clemons
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
Written by Clarence Clemons
I have no agenda - just to be loved.
Written by Clarence Clemons

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