Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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Genres are just names.
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The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
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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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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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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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Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.
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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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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 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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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 like 'The Voice.'
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The next Prince might just get really good at something else.
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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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When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
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Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
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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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I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.
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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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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
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The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
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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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What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.
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I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.
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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.