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 Image
Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death. — 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
If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own. — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying. — Jimmy Iovine Day Copy Share Image
Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them. — Jimmy Iovine Athletes Copy Share Image
When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams. — Jimmy Iovine Dream Copy Share Image
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… — 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
I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I… — 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… — Jimmy Iovine Dad 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 Buying Copy Share Image
Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to… — 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
Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in… — Jimmy Iovine Beautiful Copy Share Image
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know? — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do. — Jimmy Iovine Headphone Copy Share Image
I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do.… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson. — Jimmy Iovine Burning man Copy Share Image
If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it. — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special. — Jimmy Iovine Gift Copy Share Image
You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure. — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right. — Jimmy Iovine Company 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
I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique.… — 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
