Jimmy Iovine Quotes

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I love good, loud speakers.

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

We have no outside point of view. We are nature too.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Everything is connected to everything else.

All things are delicately interconnected.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .