Nobody wanted to be in business with Death Row because, unfortunately, they felt there was an element there that could be dangerous. But I just knew they had great music and that they were a bunch of guys who wanted to make it out of the ghetto. That's something I can understand.

Jimmy Iovine

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

Jimmy Iovine

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.

Jimmy Iovine

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.

Jimmy Iovine

I consider the recording studio where I was born.

Jimmy Iovine

I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

Jimmy Iovine

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

Jimmy Iovine

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

Jimmy Iovine

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Jimmy Iovine

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

Jimmy Iovine

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.

Jimmy Iovine

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

Jimmy Iovine

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.'

Jimmy Iovine

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.

Jimmy Iovine

I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

Jimmy Iovine

We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.

Jimmy Iovine

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

Jimmy Iovine

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

Jimmy Iovine

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

Jimmy Iovine

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Jimmy Iovine

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.

Jimmy Iovine