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To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
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It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
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When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
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The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
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When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
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I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
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When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
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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.
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When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
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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.'
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