Jimmy Iovine Quotes

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

It's hard to give your song away. They're like your kids.

If somebody makes a record, no matter how many years later it's released, they or their families should be entitled to the proceeds.

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.

An intellectual property worker will take copyright protection on everything he can get.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.