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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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I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.
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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 can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
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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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Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
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The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
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What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.
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Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.
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I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.
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The world is evolving.
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It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
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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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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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It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know?
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I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
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Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
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I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.
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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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Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.
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I don't have a rear-view mirror.
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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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In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
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I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.
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