Clarence Clemons Quotes
Sad Quotes by 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

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

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
- Clarence Clemons

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

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

The word spiritual, not the word religious,
is the key.
- Clarence Clemons

I look forward to working out every day.
- Clarence Clemons

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

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

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

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

CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee

Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself.
You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

My life is the eye of the hurricane -
an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush

Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous

The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung

In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life flows without emotion.
The River surges. The River quiets.
The River overflows its banks. The River dries to a trickle.
The River swirls and storms. The River becomes calm.
The River runs clear. The River runs dark with silt.
The River is indifferent to what benefit
or what harm is caused by its water.
The River is the River, and that is all there is to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau

I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise,
life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -
my youth.
- Sara Teasdale

I inherited that calm from my father,
who was a farmer.
You sow, you wait for good or bad weather,
you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
- Miguel Indurain

Work, look for peace and calm in work:
you will find it nowhere else.
- Dmitri Mendeleev

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism
to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil
liberties of our country.
- Larry Craig

Great events make me quiet and calm;
it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
- Queen Victoria

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
- Alexander Woollcott

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
- Dennis Prager

If the blood humor is too strong and robust,
calm it with balance and harmony.
- Xun Zi

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.
- Maya Rudolph

Power is so characteristically calm,
that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
- Christy Turlington

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because
eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.
- Robbie Williams

The nerves are a problem on trumpet,
because when you mess up everyone can hear it.
Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it.
That should calm your nerves.
- Wynton Marsalis

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire,
but most by calm and prudent forethought.
- Thucydides

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
- Jean Genet

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can
calm the agitations of the soul;
it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
- Martin Luther

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
- Bernard Pivot

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
- Gustav Mahler

By putting people around me who will calm me down and
slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.
- Donna Shalala

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault,
and truth discourtesy.
- George Herbert

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
- Ovid

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.
- Jim Sullivan

Let's take a timeout.
Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of
market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy
new strategies into the marketplace.
- Richard Grasso

I never felt settled or calm.
You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
- Angelina Jolie

I always get very calm with baseball.
- Paul Simon

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence,
to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us
a little farther up the shore.
- Cyril Connolly

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.
Man was made for action and for bustle too,
I believe.
- Abigail Adams

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire
from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened -
almost to calm themselves.
- Helen Garner

The moon is at her full, and riding high,
Floods the calm fields with light.
The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.
- William C. Bryant

God never did make a more calm, quiet,
innocent recreation than angling.
- Izaak Walton

After a storm comes a calm.
- Matthew Henry

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues,
and that makes you calm down.
- Dennis Eckersley

The recognition that things that are not sustainable
will eventually come to an end does not give us much
of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.
- Timothy Geithner

Stay calm and aggressive.
- Gabrielle Reece

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment,
one starts to hear echo.
- Yannick Noah

I am a professional.
At the circuit I am calm.
At home I am very different.
- Jean Alesi

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible.
These days producers have such definite ideas that
you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
- Bryn Terfel

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton