Jimmy Iovine Quotes
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
-
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
-
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
-
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
-
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
-
Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
-
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
-
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
-
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
-
I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
-
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
-
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
-
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
-
I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.
-
Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.
-
Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.
-
I never thought I'd be traveling the world supporting my music. Everybody seems to really enjoy the music because it comes from me, and I'm proud of it.
-
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
