Clarence Clemons famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Important #Purpose #Matter
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

#Self #Soul #Mind
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

#Player #Years #Numbers
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Christmas #Saxophone #Electric
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

#Song #Player #Horny
Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Tears #May #Causes
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Community #Advancement #Natural
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Heart
I look forward to working out every day.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Work Out #Looks
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

#Spiritual #Answers #Able
I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Christmas #Party #House
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Spiritual #Religious #Keys
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

#Jobs #Player #Rocks
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,
-- Clarence Clemons

#Letting Go #Strong #Passion
I have no agenda - just to be loved. 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.
-- Clarence Clemons

#Names #Agendas #Way
God will give you no more than you can handle,
-- Clarence Clemons

#Giving #Gods Will #Handle
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

#Growing Up #Southern #Cooking

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