Jimmy Iovine Quotes

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

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

Translation and UnitedMasters, which is all one company, is my vision and my dream, and I think it's today's reality of the convergence between storytelling, technology, and culture.

Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

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.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

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

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

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always 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 Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

The music industry is really difficult.

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.

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

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.