Clive Davis Quotes

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

If it's music, I love it.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be rich and famous.

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

I've loved music all my life.

My hope for young bands, honestly, is that they do it because they love it, they do it because it's real.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.

You never know: the next DJ Snake, the next Skrillex, the next big DJs might wait outside of the club. You gotta give back and listen to the next generation and show some love.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

I've been loving music all my life.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.