Applied Quote by Clive Davis

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written…

— Justin Guarini

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs.…

— Narada Michael Walden

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

— Andrew Lakey

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other…

— Franz Grillparzer

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

— William James

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet.…

— Brandy Norwood

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing…

— Clive Davis

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us…

— Martin Filler

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great…

— George Edward Woodberry