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Tommy Mottola

"You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit."

Source : "Interview With Tommy Mottola, Music Industry Legend and Author of Hitmaker". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

Tommy Mottola

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“The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.”
“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.”
“It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.”

Source : Michael Schudson (1981). “Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers”, p.8, Basic Books
“The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.”
“There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.”
“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”
“Four years ago, I was thinkingâ€¦ no Olympics, who am I? Probably in â€™04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. Thatâ€™s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didnâ€™t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that weâ€™re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesnâ€™t have to define us as a human being. Thereâ€™s so much more to being human than all of this.”
“Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.”

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