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Iovine: Software companies cannot build hardware and suffer from 'hardware envy'
“They're a great company, but none of these companies can make hardware, and they all have hardware envy.”
Iovine: AI music platforms using unlicensed catalogs are this era's Kazaa
“Well, those, in my opinion, those are gonna be like the kazaa of this moment.”
Iovine: Siloed Arts Schools Like Juilliard Are Not the Future
“So when you really understand technology, and you really understand the creative, you're gonna really do well. So, but you, so you shouldn't be siloed in school. You shouldn't go to a school where all you do is play the guitar all day. You know what I mean? It…”
Iovine: Streaming platforms risk obsolescence unless they adapt to artists
“Streaming is, is, is minutes away from being obsolete. What I meant by that is, unless they adapt to what artists really want, the artists are very resourceful.”
Iovine: Apple and other major corporations suffer from severely siloed communication
“So, when we went to Apple, it was that on steroids for us, you know, they're a great company, the best company, you know, but we found that at every company we went to, that everything was very siloed, and communication Understanding was siloed. Not some, not …”
Iovine: Social Media Affected Music More Creatively Than Streaming Did
“So, I think that affected music more sonically and creatively than, ah, streaming did, personally.”
Iovine: Generative AI music startups are training on 60M unlicensed tracks
“A lot of these companies that are creating AI music right now are doing so on unlicensed music en masse, like, sixty million tracks, or something like that.”
Iovine: Artists whose work is referenced in AI prompts should get paid
“The prompts should get paid.”
Iovine: AI cannot replace great artists because it cannot experience heartbreak
“What AI can't do is grow up in a terrible home. A.I. Can't have a broken heart.”
Iovine: Artists whose work influences AI music generation will get paid
“They didn't get paid. But now if you're influenced by the Beatles and Dr. Dre, they will get paid.”
Iovine: Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use AI
“And then the great talent and the great artists are gonna show the world how to use it.”
Jimmy Iovine: Record industry must own enterprise AI, not just license
“You know, the record industry needs to move laterally. They need to own the enterprise of AI, not just license to everyone.”
Iovine: Apple Music team wanted to acquire Musical.ly
“Look, when we were there, we wanted to buy Musical.ly”
Jimmy Iovine: Taste and creativity can both be learned
“You could learn creativity. You could learn taste. You could learn all those things. It's somewhere in you where you could learn it. Absolutely.”
Iovine: Record labels are handling the AI licensing challenge correctly
“I think they're handling this problem right in the beginning because they have to, the things that are out there just randomly licensing, not licensing, ignoring it, and thinking that they're gonna, I think that's, I don't think that works.”
Iovine: Music Label Licensing Will Dumb Down AI Products
“So, you know, a couple of companies have gotten licensed. I guarantee you, I don't know, but I guarantee you, in my opinion, that those that product would be dumbed down.”
Iovine: Artists and Record Labels Are Aligned on AI
“I think in this particular case, the artist and the labels are aligned.”
Iovine: Meta selling two million smart glasses is not a massive success
“They sold two million. They didn't sell twenty million. We sold two million headphones in Brooklyn. You know, it's not a really, it's not a massively successful.”
Iovine: Record labels do not need third parties to deliver music
“Again, you don't need third parties to do a lot of this stuff, you know. Why, why do the labels need third parties to deliver their music? I'll tell you why. They don't.”
Iovine: AI will force Spotify to morph as music companies take control
“And I think that's going to happen in music. I think the music companies, Are going to be more involved, and AI is the opening to do it. AI is the road to, that doesn't mean Spotify is not, but Spotify is going to have the morph as well.”
Iovine: Record labels will not launch streaming services anytime soon
“I don't think the labels are going to start streaming services. You know, not in any time short in the next few years anyway.”
Iovine: Higher education fails because students are taught in silos
“And I said, but I got a feeling that this is a problem in education. People are learning in a siloed way.”
Iovine: Beats Succeeded by Using Culture to Put Headphones on Heads
“We said, okay, our job is to get them on people's head. Once they hear it, they're not going back. And that's what we did. So we brought culture, and we got them on people's head to try them. And then once young people started trying them, they wanted it for C…”
Iovine: Many Music Producers Use AI to Spark Ideas
“A lot of producers are using AI right now, and it's really helping them. I mean, they, what they do is they even copy the AI, you know, the idea. What's gonna, it'll break a log, it breaks a log jam in your head.”
Iovine: Steve Jobs's cross-disciplinary nature remains in Apple's DNA
“Because, what was so great about, what is so great about Apple, because it's still in their DNA, is they had Steve Jobs. He was the ultimate cross-disciplinary human being. That was his, in his DNA, where tech meets liberal arts.”
Iovine: Dr. Dre and I wrote a $70M check in a month for USC
“So, we wrote a check for seventy million dollars in a month. We're just on one line knowing nothing about education, and we built what I consider a fabulous school.”
Iovine: Roger Linn built his drum machine during my recording sessions
“You know, I was fortunate because Roger Lynn used to be a guitar player, and he was playing on one of my sessions when he was creating this thing. He had the computer in there with him. He was creating a drum machine.”