Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes
I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Quotes to Explore
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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We're just a real dirty band. We're raw, and we're rough. None of us are top-scale, top-line musicians. But I tell you what, you get your top-line musicians and see if they can entertain like us.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough.
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Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.
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It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.
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I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
