Dr. Dre Quotes
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I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
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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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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 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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I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
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I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
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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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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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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.