Quotes from Jimmy Iovine

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

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

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

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

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

Talent is talent.

A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a No. 1 record. That's great for the tech companies, but not for artists.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

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

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

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

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

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.'

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.