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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• 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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• The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Reason, Woodstock

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• I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

  Mark Hoppus

  Cds, Streams

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• When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, "Will you marry me?" Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

  Tinie Tempah

  Song, Girlfriend, Thinking

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Years, Two

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• The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.

  Eddy Cue

  Years, Class, World

  "Apple Confirms It's Buying Beats For $3 Billion" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. May 28, 2014.

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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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• I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.

  Austin Mahone

  Song, Views, Two

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• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  Jason Sellards

  Love, Age, Rebel

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• I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

  Nate Ruess

  Inspirational, Basketball, Lying

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• Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

  Bob Iger

  Mean, Home, Opportunity

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Artist, Thinking, Fire

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• I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Iphone, Ipads, Stores

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the entire show?'

  Patton Oswalt

  Men, Dvds, Age

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  Ian Anderson

  Thinking, Dvds, People

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• As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.

  Kid Rock

  Hands, Talking, People

  «From This Week's Billboard: Kid Rock Rides With iTunes» by Jason Lipshutz, www.billboard.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

  Jason Epstein

  Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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• I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

  Mark Frauenfelder

  Fun, Years, Drs

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• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  Caitlin Rose

  Buying, Instant

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• I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Dad, Sleep, Two

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

  Meek Mill

  Rap, Artist, People

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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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• Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Done, Records

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