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When I was a label head, I didn't think I was greedy. I've always run my own race.
If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.
When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.
I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.
I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.
Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.
To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.
When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.
You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.
If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.
We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.
You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.
Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.
I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.
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.
The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'
I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.
I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.
You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.
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.
All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
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.