Jimmy Iovine Quotes

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

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• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• I've met every freak in the business.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Business
  • Freak
  • Met

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • People
  • Light
  • Down

• I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Tennis

• There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Terrorism
  • Link

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Done
  • Road

• Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Curiosity

• When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Guy
  • Sometimes

• As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Old

• Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

  

  Nas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Single

• I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Family
  • Regret

• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Girl
  • Eye
  • Lying

• Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Existence

• I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Beautiful
  • Forward
  • Backwards

• I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Success
  • Song

• The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Song