Song Quotes by Jimmy Iovine

I like 'The Voice.'

— Jimmy Iovine

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

— Jimmy Iovine

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.

— Jimmy Iovine

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

— Jimmy Iovine

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

— Jimmy Iovine

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

— Jimmy Iovine

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that…

— Jimmy Iovine

Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my…

— Jimmy Iovine

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

If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that…

— Jimmy Iovine

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to…

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jimmy Iovine