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
...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.
Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.
I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit’sOKit’sOKit’sOK, over and over. From very far away.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.