David Geffen

I buy my clothes at J.Crew online. I’m a very casual guy.

You can’t interview my brother!… We can call this thing off – right now!

That had her lip-syncing to a record… There was no protection for her as a person or as an artist…

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one’s own.

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

You never master the instrument. You always just strive to get better.

It’s not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

[Ben Taylor] He is an interesting combination of the two of us. His voice box is more like mine but the way his tongue sits in his mouth, and the way he pronounces words, is just like James Taylor.

When you hear somebody with balls, that’s me.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

It’s just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

‘Swing’ is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a ‘swing band’ in music.

Creativity shouldn’t be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I’m contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don’t come in with lyrics… I just go in and let it happen.

There’s only one bass player in a band. I’m the best bass player of any band I’m in.

Blues purists never cared for me. I don’t worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made ‘Three O’ Clock Blues,’ they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I’m trying to satisfy.

Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.