Ground zero for me is audio.
— Jimmy Iovine
Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.
The world is evolving.
Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.
I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.
When I feel fear, I train myself to move forward.
The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.
Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
If you are not frightened, you are not original.
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
Music industry's a fragmented mess.
You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.
Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
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.
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.
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.
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?'
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
Just because you like something, that doesn't mean that you have a feel for it.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
I feel open to anything.
I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.
People need service - great service where music is concerned.
Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'
The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.
I consider the recording studio where I was born.
I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
Apple Music is trying to create an entire pop culture experience that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my office, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.
Talent is talent.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
A chart that weighs some ad-supported streams the same as a pay stream... encourages artists to promote free tiers to have a No. 1 record. That's great for the tech companies, but not for artists.
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.
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.
Apple is a company that understands music.
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 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.
