Jimmy Iovine Quotes

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

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

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.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

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.

I make records so I can buy art.

Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin', ' he set a whole new standard.

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

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

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

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.

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

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

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

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.