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 effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.
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Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.
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When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.
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We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.
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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
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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.
