Clarence Clemons Quotes

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.