Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
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No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
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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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I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.
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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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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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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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When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.
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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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I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.
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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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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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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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There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.
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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 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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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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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
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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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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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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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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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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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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.