Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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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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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Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
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We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.
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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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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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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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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 are not frightened, you are not original.
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If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
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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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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
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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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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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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 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 really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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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.
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Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.