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Before the launch of iTunes, Jobs met with almost two dozen major artists, including Bono, Mick Jagger, and Sheryl Crow.
在iTunes發布之前，喬布斯約見了至少20多位主流歌手，包括波諾、米克·賈格爾，以及雪兒·克羅。
"He would call me at home, relentless, at ten at night,
“他會在夜里10點給我家里打電話，不管不顧，
to say he still needed to get to Led Zeppelin or Madonna," Ames recalled.
說他還是需要得到齊柏林飛船樂隊和麥當娜的支持。”羅杰·艾姆斯回憶道。
"He was determined, and nobody else could have convinced some of these artists."
“他已經下定決心，但是這些歌手中，有幾位是誰都無法說服的。”
Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters.
或許最奇怪的會面就要算“德瑞博士”去蘋果總部拜訪喬布斯的那次。
Jobs loved the Beatles and Dylan, but he admitted that the appeal of rap eluded him.
喬布斯喜歡披頭士樂隊和鮑勃·迪倫，但是他承認，最近流行起來的說唱音樂讓他動搖了。
Now Jobs needed Eminem and other rappers to agree to be sold in the iTunes Store,
現在，喬布斯想要把艾米納姆和其他說唱歌手的歌曲加入iTunes商店里出售，
so he huddled with Dr. Dre, who was Eminem's mentor.
所以要先與德瑞博士套近乎，因為他曾是艾米納姆的導師。
After Jobs showed him the seamless way the iTunes Store would work with the iPod,
當喬布斯向他展示iTunes商店和iPod之間的完美結合時，
Dr. Dre proclaimed, "Man, somebody finally got it right."
德瑞博士驚呼：“天哪，終于有人走對路子了。”
On the other end of the musical taste spectrum was the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
喬布斯喜歡的另一種風格完全不同的音樂人，是小號演奏家溫頓·馬薩里斯。
He was on a West Coast fund-raising tour for Jazz at Lincoln Center and was meeting with Jobs's wife, Laurene.
他當時正在西海岸為林肯中心爵士樂隊進行募捐巡演，并要會見喬布斯的妻子勞倫。
Jobs insisted that he come over to the house in Palo Alto, and he proceeded to show off iTunes.
喬布斯堅持讓他來到了帕洛奧圖的家里，然后給他展示了iTunes。
"What do you want to search for?" he asked Marsalis.
他問馬薩里斯：“你想找什么音樂？”
Beethoven, the trumpeter replied.
“貝多芬。”小號手答道。
"Watch what it can do!"
“看看iTunes能做到什么吧!”
Jobs kept insisting when Marsalis's attention would wander.
喬布斯努力讓馬薩里斯不要走神兒。
"See how the interface works." Marsalis later recalled,
“看看iTunes的界面是怎么工作的。”馬薩里斯之后回憶道：
"I don't care much about computers, and kept telling him so, but he goes on for two hours. He was a man possessed.
“我對計算機方面的東西不怎么感興趣，而且我也一直在向他強調這一點。但是他在那里擺弄了兩個小時，就像著了魔一樣。
After a while, I started looking at him and not the computer, because I was so fascinated with his passion."
過了一會兒，我的視線從計算機轉移到了他身上，因為我著迷于他的熱情。”
