Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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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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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for 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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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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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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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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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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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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Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do 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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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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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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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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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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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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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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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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I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'
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Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
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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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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.