A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent.… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
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… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
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… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
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… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share
