Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I find so much new music I didn't know about on my Sonos.

I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.

Apple Music is a living, breathing brand.

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

One thing I always do is listen to my iPod. I listen to whatever is kind of new on the radio, I am always downloading stuff.

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.

We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.

I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.

I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'