Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.
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It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.
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I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.
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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.
