Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.
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.
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
I was a born rock n' roll sax player.
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.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
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.
Money is a hazard.
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.
I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.
Everybody calls me Big Man.
When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.
It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.
I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.
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.
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
I didn't think I'd ever be a Michael Jackson fan. But... watching him move, watching him dance, is so encouraging for me. Because, in my mind, I can do all that stuff.
I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.
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.
God will give you no more than you can handle.
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.'
There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
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.'
I look forward to working out every day.
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
I grew up with a very religious background.
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
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.
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.
To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
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.
