Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would sound like if the women in my life stopped loving them. I guess I'll never know. I could claim that Duran Duran taught me everything I know about women, but that's not exactly accurate: I learned it from listening to girls talk about Duran Duran.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.