Dr Dre Quotes

#1. You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out.

Busta Rhymes

#2. There's people who I admire like ... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

Wiz Khalifa

#3. Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60 ... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

Warren G

#4. Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap.

Matthew Gasteier

#5. Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles

Walter Isaacson

#6. I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.

Busta Rhymes

#7. I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Michael Eric Dyson

#8. I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.

Rutina Wesley

#9. I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

Kendrick Lamar

#10. I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

Kendrick Lamar

#11. I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

Burt Bacharach

#12. The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Curtis Jackson

#13. 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.

Dr. Dre

#14. Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Dr. Dre

#15. I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Dr. Dre

#16. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.

Dr. Dre

#17. Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

Dr. Dre

#18. Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

Dr. Dre

#19. Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

Dr. Dre

#20. The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

Dr. Dre

#21. I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me.

Dr. Dre

#22. BSB are my personal favorites.

Dr. Dre

#23. The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you.

Dr. Dre

#24. I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

Dr. Dre

#25. I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Dr. Dre

#26. I apologize to the women I've hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

Dr. Dre

#27. 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.

Dr. Dre

#28. 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.

Dr. Dre

#29. When I'm lovin' these hoes, there ain't no love involved.

Dr. Dre

#30. No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down ...

Dr. Dre

#31. I'm expressin' with my full capabilities,
And now I'm livin in correctional facilities.
Cause some don't agree with how I do this,
I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

Dr. Dre

#32. Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Dr. Dre

#33. I am never going to give music up.

Dr. Dre

#34. 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.

Dr. Dre

#35. I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

Dr. Dre

#36. I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

Dr. Dre

#37. If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

Dr. Dre

#38. When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Dr. Dre

#39. In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Dr. Dre

#40. They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

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#41. I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.

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#42. I bring terror like Stephen King,
A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

Dr. Dre

#43. It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

Dr. Dre

#44. Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Dr. Dre

#45. I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Dr. Dre

#46. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

Dr. Dre

#47. 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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#48. It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Dr. Dre

#49. People aren't hearing all the music

Dr. Dre

#50. 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?

Dr. Dre

#51. I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

Dr. Dre

#52. Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound ... that's all good.

Dr. Dre

#53. Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.

Dr. Dre

#54. I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes ...
Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

Dr. Dre

#55. 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.

Dr. Dre

#56. 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.

Dr. Dre

#57. 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.

Dr. Dre

#58. I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

Dr. Dre

#59. When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!

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#60. 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.

Dr. Dre

#61. I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

Dr. Dre

#62. I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

Dr. Dre

#63. Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

Dr. Dre

#64. I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Dr. Dre

#65. My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

Dr. Dre

#66. 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.

Dr. Dre

#67. I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

Dr. Dre

#68. Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Dr. Dre

#69. Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

Dr. Dre

#70. You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Dr. Dre

#71. I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

Dr. Dre

#72. 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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#73. Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.

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#74. I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

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#75. I've got more class than most.

Dr. Dre

#76. It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

Dr. Dre