David Foster
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC, is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He has been a producer for musicians including Alice Cooper, Christina Aguilera, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Michael Bublé, Chicago, Natalie Cole, The Corrs, Céline Dion, Jackie Evancho, Kenny G, Josh Groban, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Kenny Rogers, Seal, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, and Westlife. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. He is the chairman of Verve Records...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth1 November 1949
CityVictoria, Canada
CountryCanada
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
There are secrets within secrets, though--always.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.
She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.