Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Iovine - Page 2

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

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.'

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

I don't have a rear-view mirror.

Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.

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.

I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

Genres are just names.

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

The world is evolving.

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

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.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

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.

Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Curation is everything.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.

To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

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.

The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'