Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
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Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
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Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.
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Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.
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Genres are just names.
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The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.
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I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.
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Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
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The next Prince might just get really good at something else.
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The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
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All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
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I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
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You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
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When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
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Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.
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If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.
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I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
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Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.
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What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.
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I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.
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I like 'The Voice.'
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You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.
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It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.