Jimmy Iovine
I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.Collection: Cool
Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.Collection: Fear
I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Fear
Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.Collection: Car
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.
Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
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.
If you are not frightened, you are not original.
There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.
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 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.
People need service - great service where music is concerned.
Music industry's a fragmented mess.
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.
Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
Apple is a company that understands music.
I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
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 feel open to anything.
You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
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.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
Talent is talent.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
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.
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?'
The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
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.
I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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.
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.