Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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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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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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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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'
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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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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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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 feel the pressure of getting something right.
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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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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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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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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 I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.
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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 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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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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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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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.
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We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.
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The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.