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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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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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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No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
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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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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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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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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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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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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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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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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
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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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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 really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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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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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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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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I feel the pressure of getting something right.
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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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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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When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.