Diane Warren
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280 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Diane Warren’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, on Ed Sullivan. But I saw them in person, too, because I have older sisters.
I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl and Dodger Stadium.
I remember a lot of screaming. But I remember making my mom buy me Meet the Beatles after seeing them on that. So I think that fuse lit everybody up.
And I was obsessed with music, and I got to hear everything growing up in my house. My parents listened to show tunes. I had older sisters.
Which is weird, because I don't really hear that, but it's an interesting thing.
A melody thing.
Right. You see that? I see that. But anyways, when I was 11, my dad got me a little guitar from Tijuana. I started making up songs. And he was taking me to a guitar teacher and the guitar teacher wanted me to learn scales. I think it was... It was somewhere on Balboa and Devonshire. So it's around here too. It's so weird.
And he told my dad not to bring me back because I had no future in music because I didn't want to learn the scales. I wanted to make up my own songs. So that's when I started getting the bug, you know, to write.
Not exactly. I remember some of the old songs, but not the exact first one.
So whatever was on in... Yeah, because radio, when I grew up, it was like KRLA, KFWB, KHJ. They played everything. So it wasn't like so fragmented like it is now.
Yeah, but you could hear everything. You could hear The Beatles. You could hear Motown.
Downtown, great song.
It's a great key change in the world.
So I got to hear, it was like getting this master class of songwriting. Because to me, that was the golden age. I love the Brill Building, that era.
I think he saw something in me.
It's hard to define. I think my dad was, you know, like after he retired, he would work with actors at this place called the Migot Theater down, it was on... What was it? Satakoi around White Oak. And I think my dad was like a frustrated performer almost or something. Anyways, but he totally supported me. He would take me to publishers and stuff.
I was like an arrogant little asshole.
About 15 or 16.
Let me see. One time, this was funny. So I was like probably about 16 or 17. My dad took me to see a publisher, you know, and the guy, he liked my songs, but he didn't, you know, he said, well, you know, why don't you go in the studio, do some demos? My dad goes, if you like him so much, why aren't you spending your money? I'll never forget that. You know, but... Yeah.
You know, and then I made my dad get me a subscription to Billboard, where I studied everything. You know, who wrote everything, who produced... Okay, so when you started doing that... Yeah.
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