Quotes About Clarence Clemons

#1. God will give you no more than you can handle,

Clarence Clemons

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

Hortense Odlum

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

Clarence Clemons

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. noir. In those dreams, I stand up after passionate sex with

Julie Buxbaum

#11. When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle dreamed about. The money to buy all the books she ever wanted from all over the world - and a place to keep them.

Liz Braswell

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

Clarence Clemons

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. "My name is Callum Tate and I'm going to take care of you, Harper Bailey."

Fisher Amelie

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

Clarence Clemons

#17. I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it

Jack Kerouac

#18. I look forward to working out every day.

Clarence Clemons

#19. 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

#20. I wanted, but I refused to take.
Now I resent, what I do not have.

Sarah Ann Walker

#21. There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

Clarence Clemons

#22. The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

Simon Schama

#23. 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

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

Clarence Clemons

#25. 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

#26. The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Charles Lamb