Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Iovine
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Jimmy Iovine.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.
Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.
You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
People need service - great service where music is concerned.
Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.
Talent is talent.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
Apple is a company that understands music.
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.
If you are not frightened, you are not original.
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
Ground zero for me is audio.
Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.
Music industry's a fragmented mess.
The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
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.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
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.
I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.
We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.
There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
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.
I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.
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.
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.
I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'
All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
I feel open to anything.
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
I just kept making social mistakes in my career.
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.
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.
To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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