Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
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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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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
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I don't have a rear-view mirror.
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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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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 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 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 said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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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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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
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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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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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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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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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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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'
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Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.
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If you are not frightened, you are not original.