Quotes from Jimmy Iovine

Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

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

When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

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.

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.

When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.

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

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.

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

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

Ground zero for me is audio.

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

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.

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

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

I enjoy Tupac's music. I enjoy Tupac.

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

I don't have a rear-view mirror.