Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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 think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.
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My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
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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.
