Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

Music and the music business are two different things.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

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.