Jimmy Iovine Quotes

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.

I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side, because that's most important besides the actual music. Just staying at a point I know I can't mess myself up. I just got to be put up on game about it. Drumma Boy and Memphis Track Boy taught me a lot.

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any way I could.

I'm a fan of music documentaries and I always love seeing what goes on behind the scenes. In kind of the new era of record companies and record releases and that sort of thing, there has to be way more content for the audience.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

I've always had a plan for my music career.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.

There are a lot of similarities, even though we're in two different businesses: There's the Taylor Swift business and the Big Machine Label Group business, but there's a huge intersection there. When we're together, it's limitless.

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

I had heard all the rumors and controversy swirling about the 'In Utero' recordings - there was a lot of, 'Oh, the record label hates it,' it was going to ruin the band, that kind of stuff.

I'm not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

I want to sell music, and I want radio to play my songs.

As it is with anything, if you have tuned your song well, it will be appreciated whenever it is released, especially now that FM stations and television channels are there ensure that it reaches the audience.