Geffen Quotes & Sayings

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling. — David Geffen

Broke is a Hollywood term! — David Geffen

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing. — Guy Oseary

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot. — Keanu Reeves

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her. — David Geffen

Geffen was never supportive of the band. — Edie Brickell

I've always thought that each person invented himself ... that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others. — David Geffen

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die. — David Geffen

There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today. — David Geffen

A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations. — Jerry Doyle

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money. — David Geffen

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others. — David Geffen

The concept known as bal tashchit
'Do no destroy'
has a special significance in Jewish tradition ... We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong ... We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation. — David Geffen

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player. — David Geffen

I was not doing what I was told to do. And they sued me for making music "uncharacteristic of Neil Young." That was Geffen Rocords' biggeest mistake, I think. The mistakes all started when I caved and didn't give them Island in the Sun. They wanted me to be commercially successful, and I wanted to be an artist expressing myself-those two goals are not always compatible. I was expecting to have the same artistic freedom that I had at Asylum Records, but Geffen Records wanted me to be a smash, selling millions of records. Most important, Geffen was not a hands-on at Geffen Records. He had other people doing that. It showed. — Neil Young

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else. — David Geffen

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love. — David Geffen

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth. — David Geffen

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. — Sammy Hagar

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. — David Geffen

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. — David Geffen

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad. — David Geffen

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't, — David Geffen

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it. — David Geffen

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money. — David Geffen

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. — David Geffen

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side. — Don McLean

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. — David Geffen

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted. — David Geffen

Lack of accomplishment is one thing; deceit is quite another. Everyone who has followed her career knows that Hillary is dishonest to the core, a "congenital liar" as columnist William Safire once put it. The writer Christopher Hitchens titled his book about the Clintons No One Left to Lie To. Even Hollywood mogul David Geffen, an avid progressive, said a few years ago of the Clintons, "Everybody in politics lies but they do it with such ease, it's troubling."3 — Dinesh D'Souza

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life. — David Geffen

I intend to be me. Whatever that is. — David Geffen

I am truly my mother's son. — David Geffen

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis. — Puff Daddy

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business! — David Geffen

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege. — David Geffen

Move to California. Malibu is paradise. — David Geffen

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth. — David Geffen