Jimmy Iovine

“Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.”

“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.”

“In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.”

“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...”

“If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.”

“I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.”

“Music industry's a fragmented mess.”

“If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.”

“People need service - great service where music is concerned.”

“Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.”

“Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.”

“I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.”

“Girls are sitting around talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys, when they have their heart broken or whatever, and they need music for that, right? And they need music for tha...”

“Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.”

“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. H...”

“No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.”

“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 i...”

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

“The media people need to have real tech people, and the tech people need media people. Otherwise, you have the 'Star Wars' bar on Tatooine with everyone fighting.”

“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.”