Jimmy Iovine Quotes
Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
Quotes to Explore
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.
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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
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We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
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Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
