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Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.
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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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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 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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'
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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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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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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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I feel the pressure of getting something right.
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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 open to anything.
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Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.
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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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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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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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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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Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.
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I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.
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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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Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.
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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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