Jimmy Iovine Quotes
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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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.
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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.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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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.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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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.
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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.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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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.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
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The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
