Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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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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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.
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I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
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When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.
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Music is my soul, and I love singing and dancing, but being on the road is not a real way of life for me anymore.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.
