Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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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Apple is a company that understands music.
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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 don't have a rear-view mirror.
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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
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Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.
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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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I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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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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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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Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
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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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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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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
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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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We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.
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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 can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.
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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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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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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'