Jimmy Iovine Quotes

Once you get to 22 or 23, you're already old school. It's the bubblegum ones that buy records, have fun, party. You get older, you get sophisticated, and you don't go buy no records too much.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

A lot of my fans are people who have grown up and don't have as much time to listen to the radio, but still want to keep up with what's popular. A lot of shows don't talk to them anymore, but I do.

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

When we started, there were no other distractions like the Internet and video games, so music was central to young people's lives.

I essentially grew up listening to Radio 1, the chart show in particular. It was a routine, as for many young people. Every Sunday, I waited patiently to be told who was on top.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.