Jimmy Iovine Quotes

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there. And I think if they take up this role seriously and link it to the kind of changes were wish to bring about in our country they could be a tremendous help.

Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for a couple hours and it might be on the news that night, but if it happens culturally, it happens forever. Everywhere in the world, that TV show is being played. Someone is downloading it illegally. It's blowing someone else's mind. Culture marches so quickly, and it's a language we all understand.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

Music can't change the world.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.