Clive Davis Quotes
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.
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I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
