Zitat des Tages von Jimmy Iovine:
To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
I feel open to anything.
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.
Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.
I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.
What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.
That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.
Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.
Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.
If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.
Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.
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.
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
I just kept making social mistakes in my career.
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.
It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
