Top 163 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Iovine - Page 3

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.

The next Prince might just get really good at something else.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.

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?

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

I never say someone is powerful.

I like 'The Voice.'

I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know?

Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'

I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

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.

Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.

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.

The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

I make records so I can buy art.