You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people. — 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
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right. — Jimmy Iovine Company 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
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
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
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
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
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
We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from… — 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
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
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
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
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death. — Jimmy Iovine 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
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
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
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
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
We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old. — 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 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
I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes. — Jimmy Iovine Business Copy Share Image
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists. — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it… — Jimmy Iovine Art Copy Share Image
My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
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.… — Jimmy Iovine Big picture Copy Share Image
