Clive Davis Quotes

It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.

Clive Davis

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One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

BusinessMusicBestMeFaceThought

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.

Stephen Hough

MusicExperiencePeoplePlaceWant

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

Rowan Atkinson

HomeEyesYouWatchingAudienceSee

I have dreamed about coming to Israel for as long as I can remember.

Dean Cain

RememberLongI CanComingIsrael

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

Cher Wang

TimeImaginationWantUnderstandUse

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Chuck Palahniuk

FaithYourselfTiredYouDownKnow

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Arthur Baer

GoodClimbFenceYouBackNeighbor

As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.

Winnie Holzman

LifeYouProjectOverGiveYour

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Thurgood Marshall

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The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

Martin McGuinness

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

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Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

Marlo Thomas

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