Jimmy Iovine

“There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.”

“We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.”

“I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.”

“I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.”

“I just kept making social mistakes in my career.”

“There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.”

“We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.”

“When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.”

“I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.”

“If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.”

“You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.”

“I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.”

“All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.”

“I couldn't do a show; I have about as much talent to do television as, you know... it's not what I do. I wouldn't know where to begin.”

“Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.”

“Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.”

“Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.”

“Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.”

“There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.”

“When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.”