Quotes by David Foster - Page 1

We are who people think we are.
David Foster / Musician
Life
People
Thinking
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You get to decide what to worship.
David Foster / Musician
Foster Children
Worship
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Try to let what is unfair teach you.
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Infinite Jest
Trying
Unfair
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I don’t really mean what I’m saying.
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Mean
Really Mean
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The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.
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Hell
Sun
Views
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How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
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Asks
Mean
Really Mean
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Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.
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Taught
What You Love
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You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.
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We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.
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Empathy
Real
Suffering
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Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.
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Kids
Knows
These Days
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It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.
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Alive
Conscious
Hard
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Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.
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Fiction
Mountain
Moving
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The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...
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Inspirational
Freedom
Sacrifice
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Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
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Beam
Houston
Lasers
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
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Looks
Pieces
Writing
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CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.
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Cpr
Darkness
Elements
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Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
David Foster / Musician
Canada
Fabric
Voice
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With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.
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Selling
Masses
Plugging
Stands
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An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.
David Foster / Musician
Art
Genuine Smiles
Want Something
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I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.
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Romance
Track
Track Record
Ex-Wives
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Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will
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Crafts
Letters
Notes
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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
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Commerce
Enemy
Huge
Juggling
Natural
Time Art Good
Art Time Good
Enemies
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There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.
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Afar
Plenty
Terrific
Love Great People
Love Great Always
Record
Mandate
Sing
Voices
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I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'
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Dancer
Disco
Record
Titanic
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The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.
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Crazy
Military
Real
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Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
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Break Through
Self
Winning
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
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Love
Giving
People
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I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.
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Distance
People
Thinking
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When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'
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Drummer
Passive
Produce
Sleeves
Bass Player
Measured
Note
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Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
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Gentleman
Heroism
Reality
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A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.
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Boys
Ideas
Team
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It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of the consciousness behind the text. It's got something to do with love, with having the discipline to talk out of the part of yourself that can love instead of the part that just wants to be loved.
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Art
Differences
Lying
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This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
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Art
Bullshit
Real
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I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.
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Gates
Good And Bad
Happens
Successful
Successful Person
What You Love
Little
Person
Anything
Had
Much
Again
Pretty
Did
Bad
Become
Becomes
Bill
Bill Gates
Same
Read
Do What You Love
Say
Little Piece
Little Thing
Piece
Puzzle
Same Thing
Warren
Warren Buffett
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I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
David Foster / Musician
Artist
Compromise
Huge
Involved
Mediocrity
Philosophy
Theory
Uncompromising
Success Good Your
Breeds
Success Good I Am
Battles
Career
Good Thing
Necessarily
Obviously
Pick
Point
Studio
Served
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
David Foster / Musician
Real
Sacrifice
Thinking
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