Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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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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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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do 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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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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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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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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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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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
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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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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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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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I feel the pressure of getting something right.
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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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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?
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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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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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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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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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I feel open to anything.
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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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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.