Author: Jimmy Iovine

Quotes

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.

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.

- Jimmy Iovine

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 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.

- Jimmy Iovine

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

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

- Jimmy Iovine

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

- Jimmy Iovine

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it.

- Jimmy Iovine

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

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

- Jimmy Iovine

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

- Jimmy Iovine

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

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

- Jimmy Iovine

You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.

- Jimmy Iovine

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