Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.
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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 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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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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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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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
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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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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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Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.
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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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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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I don't have a rear-view mirror.
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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 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 said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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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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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'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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There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.
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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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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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You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.