American - Producer | March 11, 1953 -
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.
Jimmy Iovine
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I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
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Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.
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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?'
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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.
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All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
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There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.
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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.
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We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
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I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'
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Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
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Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
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