Dr. Dre Quotes
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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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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.
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It's always been difficult to make a good record.
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In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
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A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.
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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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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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Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
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I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that.
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I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.
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I've always been a lunatic.
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Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.
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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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My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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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.
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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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Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
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I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.