Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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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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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'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.
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I feel open to anything.
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A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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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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Ground zero for me is audio.
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Curation is everything.
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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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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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Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
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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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Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.
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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.
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When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.
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Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
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Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.
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Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
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Talent is talent.
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All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
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My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.