Clarence Clemons Quotes

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.

Music heals. Music grows new relations.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

Music is like a medicine.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.