Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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.
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I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.
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Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.
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I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
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You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.
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I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.
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Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.
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Music industry's a fragmented mess.
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I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
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There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.
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It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.
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I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.
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I just kept making social mistakes in my career.
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I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.
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Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
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I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
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You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.
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There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
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You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
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Apple is a company that understands music.
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To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
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My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
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There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
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The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.