All Things Must Pass (2015)

David Geffen: Self - Founder, Geffen Records DGC

Quotes 

• David Geffen, Himself : If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair - it was like that, you know. You walked through the streets of San Francisco and there were people, you know, smoking pot and having little daisies in their hair and hanging out and the Fillmore was packed and, you know, it was a change. People were against the war and against segregation and there was a lot of political feeling in the world and a lot of it was centered in the change that was happening in San Francisco and that's the caldron in which Tower Records was born.

• David Geffen, Himself : You had the Troubadour and you had the Roxy and you had the Whiskey and lots of clubs that they played coming up. So, those artists would look through Tower and wonder when their record were going to be there.

• David Geffen, Himself : If you loved music and you loved having a record collection, which I did, it was exciting to walk through the store. I went there three or four times a week.

• David Geffen, Himself : Artists were in California and in Los Angeles, would go into Tower Records to find out where their records were and if there was a pile of Elton John and there wasn't a pile of the Eagles, the Eagles weren't happy or vice versa.

• David Geffen, Himself : The industry as a whole didn't respond appropriately to what was happening. What they should have done is made records cheaper. They could have. But, they didn't.

• David Geffen, Himself : How do you compete with that? You know, if you could get Coca-Cola for free from your faucet, you wouldn't buy a bottle of Coca-Cola.