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
In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.
...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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.