Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'
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Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.
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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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We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
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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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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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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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People need service - great service where music is concerned.
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Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.
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I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.
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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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If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.
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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
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I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.
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I don't have a rear-view mirror.
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I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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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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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 learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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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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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
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No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.