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David Foster Biography

David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He has been a producer for musicians including Chaka Khan, Alice Cooper, Christina Aguilera, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Michael Bublé, Chicago, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Kenny G, Josh Groban, Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Kenny Rogers, Seal, Rod Stewart, Charice, Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson, Cheryl Lynn and Barbra Streisand. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. He was the chairman of Verve Records from 2012 to 2016.

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Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Love, Taught, What You Love

The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

Hell, Keyhole, Like, Sun, Views

A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

Boys, Code, Desires, Ideas, Team

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

Kids, These Days, Knows, Younger, Know

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Absolute, Art, Genuine Smiles, Like, Pretends, Want Something

Whitney Houston was a laser beam. . . She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Beam, Gave, Houston, Lasers, Studio

The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

Alternative, Freedom, Real, Sacrifice, Think, Thinking

I don’t really mean what I’m saying.

Mean, Really Mean, Saying

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

Crazy, Genius, Military, People, Real, Science

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

Cpr, Darkness, Elements, Times

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

Asks, Banal, Mean, Really Mean, Totally

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Like, Looks, Minimalist, Pieces, Write, Writing

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Love, People, Giving, Family, Evolutionary

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

Moving, Mountain, Fiction, Ass, Boring, Sits

The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.

Care, Freedom, Inspirational, Involves, People, Sacrifice

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

Reality, Gentleman, Heroism, Admire, Truth

Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.

Break Through, Disappear, Roots, Self, Transcend, Winning

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

Infinite Jest, Let, Teach, Trying, Unfair

I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

Distance, Thinking, People, Safe, Respect

We are who people think we are.

Life, Thinking, People, Think