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" When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus. "

Clarence Clemons

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

Clarence Clemons

" I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people. "

Clarence Clemons

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

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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. "

Clarence Clemons

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

Clarence Clemons

" Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone. "

Clarence Clemons

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

Clarence Clemons

" Money is a hazard. "

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" 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. "

Clarence Clemons

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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

" Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.' "

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. "

Clarence Clemons

" I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely. "

Clarence Clemons

" I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better. "

Clarence Clemons

" I grew up with a very religious background. "

Clarence Clemons

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

Clarence Clemons

" Cooking is an art form, a creative thing. "

Clarence Clemons

" 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. "

Clarence Clemons

" Everybody calls me Big Man. "

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

" 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

" 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 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

" 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. "

Clarence Clemons