178 Quotes by Jimmy Iovine

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

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.

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

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.

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

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

I don't have a rear-view mirror.