There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
It’s hard to say if something is worth the wait, because how the hell do any of us know? Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
We have a problem in the industry, I believe. This whole ‘free’ issue. The television industry doesn’t have it, the movie industry doesn’t have it, but the record industry has it. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
If you’re an artist, and you put out a record – most artists only have one or two hit records – that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How’s an artist going to live like that? Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
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. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
What I saw in the record industry is it’s just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone’s trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that’s researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
You shouldn’t take a customer who’s buying an album, who’s happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they’re doing is wrong. Jimmy Iovine Read Quote
