Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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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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 get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.
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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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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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We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole 'free' issue. The television industry doesn't have it, the movie industry doesn't have it, but the record industry has it.
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Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
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A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a No. 1 record. That's great for the tech companies, but not for artists.
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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
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Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.
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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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Girls are sitting around talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys, when they have their heart broken or whatever, and they need music for that, right? And they need music for that. So it's hard to find the right music. Not everyone has the right list or knows a DJ.
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I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do. I wouldn't know where to begin.
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Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
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My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm just a trophy.
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I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
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Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
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I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.