Itunes Quotes

• I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Simplicity, Innovation

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• Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

  Eddy Cue

  Records Breaking, People, Albums

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• My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

  Paul McCartney

  Labels, Sitting, Records

  "Life for a man on the run". Interview with Kim Murphy, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2007.

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• Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

  Derek Sivers

  Jobs, Independent, Hands

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• Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  Song, Thinking, Two

  "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

  Greg Laswell

  Band, Grew Up, Stills

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• Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

  Sean Parker

  Years, Two, Records

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• Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

  Marco Arment

  Apples, World, Information

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• As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

  DJ Shadow

  Party, Artist, Stores

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wall, Thinking, Office

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• People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Country, Nice, Thinking

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• I think the Web is, you know, things like YouTube and stuff are absolutely where a lot of younger people are watching their TV on iTunes in the Web and YouTube, whatever. So, I think it's an important place to have a presence.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Tina Fey and Jane Krakowski Talk 30 Rock". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

  Vince Clarke

  Song, Done, Versions

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• People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

  Charles Stross

  Strong, Believe, Mp3

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• To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Tv Shows, World

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

  Tom Felton

  Song, Nice, Careers

  "'Harry Potter' countdown: Tom Felton on the 'gradual crumbling' of Malfoy". Interview with Denise Martin, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 15, 2009.

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• Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

  John Taylor

  Jobs, Thinking, Ipods

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• Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Iphone, Apples, Ipods

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• We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

  Steve Jobs

  Ipods, Design, Trying

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

  Wale

  Independent, Successful, Men

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.

  Shanice

  Thinking, Waiting, Records

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• In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

  DJ Shadow

  Simple, Track, Albums

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Months

  Source: www.gq.com

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• My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

  DJ Shadow

  Problem, Site

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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