Quotes from Clarence Clemons

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

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.

Small clubs aren't as lucrative, but spiritually, they're my favorite places to play. It's a homey kind of thing. I refer to it as the Church of What's Happening Now.

As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I'll be out there doing it. I'm going to keep going 'til I'm not there anymore. This is what's keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

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

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

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

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.

I look forward to working out every day.

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.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

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.

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

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

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.