Jimmy Iovine

“Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.”

“I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.”

“If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.”

“If you're an artist, and you put out a record - most artists only have one or two hit records - that has 100 million streams, on certain services you only get paid on 75% of those streams. How's an artist going to live like that?”

“Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.”

“I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.”

“Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.”

“To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.”

“You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.”

“I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.”

“Ground zero for me is audio.”

“If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.”

“If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.”

“I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'”

“There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.”

“Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.”

“Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.”

“Apple Music is about getting things early and pushing them out.”

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

“My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.”