David Geffen

[On Laura Nyro] I said to Laura ‘You know Laura, I think we should sell your music publishing company. I think right now is the right time you have three songs in the top ten this may never happen again and I think we can get a lot of money for it.’ And I made a deal with Clive Davis to sell Tuna Fish Music for $4 million. And that was a hell of a lot of money in 1969. It made her famous, it made her rich. It got people to listen to her music with her singing.

When I go to see Iron Man 3, I’m not as enthralled as I was when I saw The Bridge on the River Kwai.

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

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody’s face while we’re having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

A friend is a second self.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

True friends stab you in the front.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

Good friends are good for your health.