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My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.

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The next Prince might just get really good at something else.

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I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

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The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

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If you are not frightened, you are not original.

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I always knew that women, some women, at times find it very difficult to find music.

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I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

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I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

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Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.

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I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

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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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You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

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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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We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.

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

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

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It's hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know?

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I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.

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I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.

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I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

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If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?

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I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

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I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

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Girls are sitting around talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys, when they have their heart broken or whatever, and they need music for that, right? And they need music for that. So it's hard to find the right music. Not everyone has the right list or knows a DJ.

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Curation is everything.

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We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.

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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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No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

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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 feel the pressure of getting something right.

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The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

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People need service - great service where music is concerned.

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I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.

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There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

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Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

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