Dr. Dre Quotes
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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.
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Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.
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I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.
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I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.
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I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'
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I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
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People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.
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I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
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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.
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I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
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Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.
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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
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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.
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It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.
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I'm a fan of J. Cole.
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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.
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I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
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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.
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When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
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I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.
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The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.
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I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.
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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.
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I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.