David Geffen

This thing is really silly. I don’t want to hurt you anymore, and I’m too powerful for you to hurt. I forgive you for all the times you’ve f*cked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f*ck me in the future.

The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

I forgive you for all the times you’ve f**ked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f**k me in the future.

[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.

I used to be able to read memo’s upside down… It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

There is no mistake in nature.

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.