American - Producer | March 11, 1953 -
When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.
Jimmy Iovine
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Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.
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Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.
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I don't have a rear-view mirror.
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I didn't feel comfortable as an executive. I felt comfortable around artists and record producers... and then I found my niche: I gotta find great producers, and I produce them.
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People need service - great service where music is concerned.
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Music industry's a fragmented mess.
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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.
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Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
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Apple is a company that understands music.
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I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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