Quotes from Jimmy Iovine

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

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

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.

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

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.

I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

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

The good news is in the record business, they only count your successes.

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.

If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.

I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'

It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.

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.

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.

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.