Quotes from Jimmy Iovine

I just kept making social mistakes in my career.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

Genres are just names.

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

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.

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

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

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.

My relationships are helped because of all the success I've had, but I'm only as useful as the idea I have today or tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm just a trophy.

In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.

What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

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?

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

I make records so I can buy art.