Jimmy Iovine Quotes

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Jimmy Iovine

Profession : Producer

Birth : March 11, 1953

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

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You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

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I consider the recording studio where I was born.

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Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

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Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.

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

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Music industry's a fragmented mess.

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What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

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If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

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Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.

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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

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I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

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Apple is a company that understands music.

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If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

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Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

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

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

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My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

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