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.

They are not alone, she sees. Here is David’s friend Clive. She always rather liked Clive. Sensed he liked her too. And here, standing beside Hanshaw’s news-stand, are two boys. Men, she supposes. Fighting age, but no more than eighteen. They look down at David, sprawled at their feet, one arm outstretched towards them, beseeching. Then, slack-jawed, they turn their faces towards her, as if she’s a mirage: blonde, petite, horn-rimmed spectacles, a grey two-piece, stilettos. The last person they’d expect to be brandishing a firearm. (From At the Stroke of Nine O'Clock by Jane Davis.)

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