Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
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In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
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When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.
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You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'
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I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
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Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.
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Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
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The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.
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Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
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I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.
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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
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I never say someone is powerful.
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We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
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We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.
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The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.
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To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.
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I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.
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'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.
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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.