- Vini Lopez: We done some really good things together and a few not so good things. Not *bad*, just not so good, you know, together. And you learn from your mistakes. The only analogy I could probably have is that we became great players because we remember all of the mistakes we've made and we don't do those mistakes anymore. We only - we play to our positives - energy, you know. And that's what I learned from Clarence.
- Clarence Clemons: Boy, being down here, sometimes you get lost. It's good to be alone. It's good to find yourself. It's good not to share thoughts with anybody but yourself, sometimes. A place to find myself. This is it.
- Gayle Morrison: What did he think about "Jungleland"? I think he knew it was his most acclaimed, probably. So, probably that is his favorite. Everybody knows the story that what's on the album is a compilation of 75 takes - or 76 takes. You didn't know that? I thought you knew everything.
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- Gayle Morrison: No, they - Bruce was looking for a specific sound and Clarence - and this is, you know, '74ish, so, there was no - they did not have the technology, obviously. So, he kept recording it over and over and over. And what they ultimately did is - Clarence recorded it in the freight elevator in the studio. So, they dragged in the cords and the equipment out there so they could record it in there so they could get this bleak, desperate sound that they couldn't capture synthetic or artificially in the equipment, so to speak. So, yeah, there's - that one on the album doesn't really exist.
- Clarence Clemons: To find yourself, you have to know yourself. Deep inside me, I knew there was more and I wanted to find it.
- Clarence Clemons: Forgot where I was. I forgot how old I was for a second there. Rock-n-Roll will do that to you.
- Bill Clinton: Basically, I always considered him a man who walked around everyday open to the wonder of what ever happened. The remarkable journey.
- Clarence Clemons: Being the Big Man means: great spirit, great understanding, greatness in love, greatness in peace, and greatness in the boat - right behind me.
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- Clarence Clemons: And fishing on that boat.
- Clarence Clemons: Something in this place is different. Calmness. The calmness in the midst of thousands of people was allowing me to see inside myself. And I was alone. But, I found a peace in the loneliness. I found joy in people not knowing who I was. What would be next?
- Clarence Clemons: Fushun. Northeast China. A mining town. An industrial city. A blue collar town. Like the one I grew up in. Hmm. It feels different. - - I feel different. I'm pretty accustomed to people stopping me on the street, asking me for autographs or pictures. Its because of the band I'm in. This place is different. One billion people and not one of them knew my name... Not only had they never heard of me, or Bruce; but, they had never seen a black man before.
- TM Stevens: He's very open and he taught me don't be one of these artists that has a body guard, don't touch me. So, when I play concerts and I play a lot, I just played 27 concerts, everywhere, I always let the audience come and touch. Clarence Clemons taught me to be open, be loving, and let the people in. I learned that from Clarence.
- Bill Clinton: When you get older and you realize you have more yesterdays than tomorrows, you have to really cultivate a discipline of gratitude - and of openness and keep trying to grow. And I had the feeling that that's exactly where he was in his life.
- Dale Powers: At the core of everything was his love of music. That's what it was all about. He loved to play, man. He represented power and peace in the same breath. Which was really cool.
- Clarence Clemons: This is where many of the Chinese emperors are entombed. The emperors are like father figures. Another father. You write them a letter. You ask them questions. You burn it. The smoke delivers it to the universe and the answer will come back to you. I call it: Chinese Express Mail. It wasn't about religion. It was about spirituality.
- Nils Lofgren: We had a lot of philosophical discussions. You know, we both believe in God. We weren't big fans of organized religion. And we always did a lot of pondering and wondering. And he was always very content with the mysteries.
- Clarence Clemons: I'd never been here before, but, I knew my way around. I felt very comfortable, as if I had lived this life before.
- Clarence Clemons: "Who do you think you are?" And he's right. Who do I think I am? Sometimes what you're looking for has been there all the time. Who do you think you are? Who the hell am I? We just don't see it. We just can't see it. We just couldn't see it.
- Clarence Clemons: It was a familiar feeling. It was like grandfather's church when I was growing up. It was being baptized when I was 13. It was the same feeling as when I first picked up the saxophone.
- Clarence Clemons: I'm still alone. No one understands my language. I don't understand their language. But, I am finding such peace.
- Clarence Clemons: Spirituality to me is the recognition of a spirit within me - that is greater than me.
- Jake Clemons: Yeah! Everything about Clarence was spiritual. Everything about him was spiritual. I mean, gosh, he had this desperation to - understand who he was and how he fit in the universe and what the universe meant and what his purpose was there, you know. And it was constant. I mean, like, everything he did revolved around that.
- Bill Clinton: The way he was, not with just me, but, with other people, with people who weren't President, showed a - spiritual depth that, then, you could hear when he played.
- Bill Clinton: Its amazing what happens if you're just open to the people you meet, the things you see, the human drama you can find on any street corner, that's what he was. He was open. He didn't miss much. And he absorbed it in a way that made him play differently.
- Clarence Clemons: I took it all onboard. It all became one. I knew then the search that had taken me to the other side of the world, was swiftly coming to an end.
- Clarence Clemons: On this journey, I had let myself become an open book. Open to everything. Absorbing everything. I wanted it all.
- Narada Michael Walden: We believe in a higher power - that if we open ourselves and open our heart, then that spirit does come through. And Clarence and I got quite good at just going to the piano and sax and just seeing whatever came.
- Narada Michael Walden: Beautiful songs. Its trust. Just trust the he would play the right thing or I'd play the right thing or our souls would play the right things for each other. And I think it ultimately comes down to having real love for each other.
- Clarence Clemons: What is going on in the rest of the world is not important. The brotherhood of music and the unspoken word, I was in my own temple, dancing to the rhythm of my own soul.
- Bill Clinton: You have to give up a lot of people you care about. And so what remains of them, is in you. And it makes you better; but, you have to miss them.
- John Allegue: I remember asking him what his faith was and he said, "Johnny, I'm a seeker."
- Clarence Clemons: You get a little upset because you think that something bad has happened. Sometimes, you have to stop and look and say: wait a minute. Sometimes its time to move on and you don't want to move on and God makes you move for some other reason. Like I was playing football and what I should have been doing was playing music. And I had this car accident and it stopped me from playing football. You know, this is how I met Bruce, you know. It was one of those things that God would stop me from doing one thing and threw me into something else.
- Narada Michael Walden: You can see why Bruce Springsteen, as big as he is, would lean on Clarence - for the emotional *power* that he had. And when he blew his horn, it could liberate people - all over the world. The sound's enormous. He's beloved.
- Clarence Clemons: I started to verbalize things that she had said to me. Deep and meaningful lessons that I will never forget. She's say: Son, always tell the truth. If you lie, you got to keep on lying. Never quit. Never give up on something you really believe. Always stand straight. Look people in the eye when you talk to them. How you see yourself is how other people see you.
- Clarence Clemons: The heart of it, the spirit of it, is that one note, that same note, night after night, that's the promised land. That's where I belong. That's who I think I am.
- Narada Michael Walden: For music and people I meet like my great friend, Clarence Clemons, music and spirituality - the two go hand-in-hand together.
- Clarence Clemons: A flame has burned away all I've known. Making way for something new. A new life. A new thought. A new consciousness. Find your own true destiny and purpose in this life, while the book is still open.