I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer. — Jimmy Iovine Being Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having. — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
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 Caring 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 Algorithms Copy Share Image
When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone. — Jimmy Iovine Business Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Iovine Amazing 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 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
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
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
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
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
A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a… — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident. — Jimmy Iovine Business Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable. — 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
I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.' — Jimmy Iovine Idea Copy Share Image
When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things. — Jimmy Iovine Father Copy Share Image
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video. — 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
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind. — 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
If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust. — 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
