Clive Davis Quotes

I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

I care about music and money. I'm an artist first.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.