Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I never have a genre in mind when I'm making music because I just like to be free. I feel that placing a genre on your music is limiting yourself.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.

I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I do believe every artwork has its own charisma. Sometimes it's different from what I expect. When a work is finished, it exudes its own charisma and lives its life independently.

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

Music videos were an outlet. They were the jobs most easily available to me, but creatively, they're also so free form; there are no rules whatsoever.

That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.

I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.