Clive Davis Quotes

You’ve got to earn it with each time out.

I never took anything for granted

I’ve got to move on my instinct, my intuition.

Music is a necessary ingredient in people’s lives...It’s a very, very natural basic ingredient that’s essential to the full enjoyment of life.

market demographic. “To this day, Clive Davis, who was the president of CBS, claims it was his brainchild to move aggressively into Black music,” critic Nelson George suggests in his book The Death of Rhythm and Blues, citing an inflammatory report submitted to CBS on May 11, 1972, by the Harvard University Business School titled, “A Study of the Soul Music Environment Prepared for Columbia Records Group.” 98 “The growth of CBS's involvement in Black music in the years following the Harvard Report was immense,” George writes. “In 1971, the CBS roster included two cutting-edge Black artists, Sly and the Family Stone and Santana,” but, “by 1980, it had

Before long, he had worked himself up to be an assistant to CBS president Clive Davis, who was not then known to be gay. And he had also discovered an unexpected knack for writing advertising copy. Developing a whole new campaign of his own around the slogan “Know Who Your Friends Are,” he featured countercultural images of long-haired hippies, blacks, and Native Americans.