Jimmy Iovine Quotes

#1. Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: "Jimmy always says it's all about the connection between the artist and the fans," he says. "This whole business, it's just about that connection.

John Seabrook

#2. You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Merle Shain

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

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

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#5. I make records so I can buy art.

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#6. If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Morton Blackwell

#9. 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.

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

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#11. After three albums, you should shoot your producer

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#12. Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Charles Stross

#13. 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.

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#14. People need service - great service where music is concerned.

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#15. Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

Robin Wasserman

#16. Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Diane Ackerman

#17. When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.

Suze Orman

#18. 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.

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#19. The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.

Shan Sa

#20. Everything you know could already be wrong.

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#21. That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

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#22. Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really suffering.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Without education, confidence does not come.

B.K.S. Iyengar

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

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

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#26. That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

Donna Karan

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

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