Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

I went to school for audio engineering, and I was around a lot of sound engineers over the summers in New York, so I'm pretty comfortable in engineering my own stuff.

Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.