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The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

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.'

Clarence Clemons

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

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.

Clarence Clemons

I'm a Gaga-ite.

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.

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.

Clarence Clemons

Money is a hazard.

Clarence Clemons

I'm always in the market for my acting.

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.

Clarence Clemons

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Clarence Clemons

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.

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.

Clarence Clemons

Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.

Clarence Clemons

I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'

Clarence Clemons

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

Clarence Clemons

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.

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.

Clarence Clemons

I look forward to working out every day.

Clarence Clemons

The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

Clarence Clemons

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

Clarence Clemons

God will give you no more than you can handle.

Clarence Clemons

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

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.

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.

Clarence Clemons

I grew up with a very religious background.

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.

Clarence Clemons

I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

Clarence Clemons

Everybody calls me Big Man.

Clarence Clemons

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

Clarence Clemons

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

Clarence Clemons

What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.

Clarence Clemons

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.

Clarence Clemons

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

Clarence Clemons

The age thing is just a number.

Clarence Clemons

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

Clarence Clemons

When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

Clarence Clemons