{"id":2297,"date":"2026-06-23T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:06:12","slug":"diane-warren-pays-tribute-to-clive-davis-we-lost-the-greatest-music-man-of-all-time-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Diane Warren Pays Tribute to Clive Davis: \u201cWe Lost the Greatest Music Man of All Time Today\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nClive Davis, one of the most influential figures in the history of the music business, died on Monday at the age of 94, inspiring a wave of tributes from across the entertainment industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nAmong those who called him a friend and mentor was the prolific songwriter Diane Warren, who worked closely with Davis for over 40 years, writing hits for the likes of Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston and Milli Vanilli to name a few. Earlier Monday, she likened Davis\u2019s passing to losing her father. Speaking further with <\/em>THR, Warren recalled the beginnings of her friendship with Davis, lessons she\u2019d learned and why \u201cthere will never be anything like him again.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tClive was family. Obviously not by blood, but we create our own families. In my heart, he was family. I wrote it in that post, but especially the day after Father\u2019s Day, it felt like losing my dad, losing another father. It hit that hard because it\u2019s not just that we had a lot of hits together and did a lot of work together. <\/p>\n

\n\tI would not have the career I had now had it not been for Clive Davis, and I\u2019m not the only one. There\u2019s so many of us, so many huge artists, that owe everything to that guy. From the \u201960s, \u201970s, \u201980s, \u201990s and so on, that\u2019s 70 years of creating artists. And of so many different genres. Janice Joplin, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe crazy thing is he started as a lawyer. He wasn\u2019t a trained music guy, and yet he possessed an ear \u2014 an innate talent \u2014 no one will ever have what he had. I got to witness it myself. I go play him a song, and just seeing him be so moved by hearing a song and having tears in his eyes, there\u2019s nobody like that anymore. <\/p>\n

\n\tA lot of today\u2019s executives, they don\u2019t listen, they look. They look at numbers. They look at Spotify streams, TikTok numbers, they look at all the shit that really doesn\u2019t matter. All that matters is what makes you feel, what hits you in the heart.<\/p>\n

\n\tI was talking to someone yesterday who\u2019s really high up at a big music company who told me: \u201cwe had this company retreat and in three days, we listened to one song.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201coh my god, is that what it is?\u201d It\u2019s sad. It\u2019s not the way it\u2019s supposed to be. Clive, he just got it. It wasn\u2019t one kind of artist or one kind of song. If it moved him he knew it\u2019d move other people, and most of the time he was pretty right. <\/p>\n

\n\tI trusted his opinion when he loved the song. I didn\u2019t trust it when he didn\u2019t. (laughs). No, I trusted him. Sometimes I\u2019d play something that I wasn\u2019t sure if he\u2019d like it and he\u2019d love it. Sometimes I\u2019d play something I thought he\u2019d love and he didn\u2019t. But he was always honest. if he said someone was doing a song and it was coming out as a single, it was going to happen. it wasn\u2019t like they had to test it, do all that other shit. I love the fact that he trusted his instincts, and they were so on spot on. You couldn\u2019t argue with success, and the guy was successful from day one. <\/p>\n

\n\tI think I met him right before \u201cRhythm of the Night,\u201d and I played him a bunch of songs. He didn\u2019t like any of them, and I was really bummed because I grew up reading his first book, Inside the Record Business<\/em>. I studied everything. I was going to be a songwriter, and Clive Davis was on Mount Rushmore when I was a kid. I knew I had to meet Clive Davis. I finally I met Clive and he didn\u2019t like the music. But then I came back, because I always come back. He loved some of those other songs. <\/p>\n

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\n\tWe became really good friends too. Two of those 17 Oscar losses, Clive was my date. I took him when I was nominated for \u201cBecause You Loved Me\u201d from Up Close and Personal<\/em>, that was a song that I basically wrote to thank my dad for believing in me. I remember telling Clive, \u201cI really want you to go because you\u2019re like my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI thought I was gonna win that year. I went with Clive and he was trying to cheer me up, and he goes, \u201cLet\u2019s go to Jerry\u2019s Deli.\u201d We went there, and I ate like three servings of French fries to drown my pain. There were so many great times I have with Clive. One time I had a meeting with him and I said I can\u2019t get there till ten-to-5 because I had a therapy appointment. He started cracking up because he thought I said I have therapy from 10 a.m. to 5 o\u2019clock. He goes, \u201cI know you\u2019re crazy, Di, but you need that much therapy a day? <\/p>\n

\n\t[My first song he took] was probably something from Air Supply. There was a lot after that. I\u2019d come and bring him songs for Whitney, she was their biggest artist. I always wanted to be on her records, and he\u2019d go, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not for Whitney, but it\u2019s for this other artist Taylor Dayne.\u201d I\u2019d say \u201cI don\u2019t want Taylor Dayne, I want Whitney.\u201d But then Taylor did \u201cLove Will Lead You Back\u201d and it was a Number One Record. Or there was \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019d play him something else I thought was Whitney and he goes, \u201cno, I have this group Expos\u00e9,\u201d and that was \u201cI\u2019ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me.\u201d I think I probably played on \u201cUn-Break My Heart\u201d for Whitney too. \u201cNo I have an artist named Toni Braxton I want that song for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI was holding a song for this group called The Jets. I held it for a year, they tell me they\u2019re not going to do it. I decided I was going to see Clive in New York because I knew it was a hit record. He played me Milli Vanilli. He played \u201cGirl You Know It\u2019s True,\u201d and I thought it sounded like my song \u201cBlame It on the Rain.\u201d It became one of my biggest hits ever. I would get some Whitney songs too. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe taught me that it\u2019s all about the song, it starts with a song. I knew that already, but the fact that someone who ran a record company knew that, respected that and respected songs and songwriters, that was big. <\/p>\n

\n\tGenius, passionate, brilliant, kind. He was a good man. He was a family man. He loved his family, he took care of people. We lost the greatest music man of all time today. No one will ever, ever, ever, ever come close to a tenth of what he did. <\/p>\n

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Prolific hitmaker Diane Warren gave a warm tribute to Clive Davis after the the legendary music executive died at age 94 on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1876,1877,39],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-clive-davis","tag-diane-warren","tag-obituaries"],"yoast_head":"\nDiane Warren Pays Tribute to Clive Davis: \u201cWe Lost the Greatest Music Man of All Time Today\u201d - US Property Moves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2297\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diane Warren Pays Tribute to Clive Davis: \u201cWe Lost the Greatest Music Man of All Time Today\u201d - 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