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" I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart. "

Clarence Clemons

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" The age thing is just a number. "

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" 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. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss. "

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. "

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" Tell-all books are boring. "

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" To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls. "

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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. "

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

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" I have no agenda - just to be loved. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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