Top 134 Quotes & Sayings by Dr. Dre
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I'm a fan of J. Cole.
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.
I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.
I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
There is some sampling on my records and a lot of what I call replays, where I'd have musicians come in the studio and replay the sample from the original record. But mainly, we'd come up with our own music.
I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.
Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
I've always been a lunatic.
I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.
The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.
I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.
I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.
If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
It's always been difficult to make a good record.
I am never going to give music up.
I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
I have tons of music stashed.
An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
I have social anxiety.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
My father is the oldest of seven boys.
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.
You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.
I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.
I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.
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