Top 100 Dre's Quotes
#1. Been there, done that
Sold crack, got jacked
Got shot, came back
Jumped on Dre's back!
Jayceon Terrell Taylor
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.
Dr. Dre
#6. Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
Dr. Dre
#7. Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.
Dr. Dre
#8. 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
#9. Try to be the king, but the ace is back.
Dr. Dre
#10. The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
Dr. Dre
#11. 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
#12. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
Kendrick Lamar
#13. BSB are my personal favorites.
Dr. Dre
#14. I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50.
Rutina Wesley
#15. 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
#16. Typically, I like my women tall, lean, blonde, and a little on the "easy" side. Who doesn't really? I sound like an ass, don't I? - Dre
Angelisa Stone
#17. 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
#18. I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
Dr. Dre
#19. You killed him."
I held up my index finger and my thumb, slowly closing the gap between them, peering over at Dre through the tiny slit that remained. "Little bit."
"I don't think you can kill someone a little bit."
"Oh, well then, a lot bit. I killed him a lot bit.
T.M. Frazier
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur
#25. Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.
Dr. Dre
#26. But look, I cleared out all y'all that got in the way/And y'all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre
Jon Connor
#27. Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label].
Killer Mike
#28. Eazy, Dre, Cube. Conceptualizer, musicalizer, lyricizer. Father, son, and holy ghost. The trinity behind N.W.A.
Jerry Heller
#29. 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
#30. Those who are quiet will always cause riots.
Dr. Dre
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I bring terror like Stephen King,
A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine
Dr. Dre
#34. The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls.
Crystal Evans
#35. I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.
Dr. Dre
#36. 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.
Dr. Dre
#37. In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
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. 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
#40. I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.
Dr. Dre
#41. I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
Dr. Dre
#42. I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?
Dr. Dre
#43. 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
#44. I am never going to give music up.
Dr. Dre
#45. But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice
#46. Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet
Dr. Dre
#47. 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
#48. I made a man out of you, you made a joke out of me.
Crystal Evans
#49. 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
#50. Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
Walter Isaacson
#51. When I'm lovin' these hoes, there ain't no love involved.
Dr. Dre
#52. There's people who I admire like ... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.
Wiz Khalifa
#53. Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
Dr. Dre
#54. 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
#55. I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
Dr. Dre
#56. I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
Dr. Dre
#57. 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
#58. When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!
Dr. Dre
#59. I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.
Mac Dre
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Roll the weed up
Somebody turn the beat up
While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up
Mac game so cold make yo nose runny
Mac game so cold takin' hoes money
Mac Dre
#64. 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
#65. If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [lha]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits ['dre, demons].
Machik Labdron
#66. I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes ...
Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.
Dr. Dre
#67. Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.
Dr. Dre
#68. Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound ... that's all good.
Dr. Dre
#69. I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.
Dr. Dre
#70. The steak ain't right without the A-1
So I stay dipped in sauce and they come
Mac Dre
#71. 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
#72. People aren't hearing all the music
Dr. Dre
#73. 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
#74. I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
Dr. Dre
#75. A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym ... so I took his advice.
Warren G
#76. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.
Dr. Dre
#77. Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.
Dr. Dre
#78. I've got more class than most.
Dr. Dre
#79. I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
Dr. Dre
#80. Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.
Dr. Dre
#81. Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.
F. Gary Gray
#82. 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.
Dr. Dre
#83. I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.
Dr. Dre
#84. You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.
Dr. Dre
#85. 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
#86. Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'.
Joe Dunthorne
#87. I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.
Mac Dre
#88. Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems.
French Montana
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. Dre
#92. I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.
Obie Trice
#93. My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay
Drake
#94. 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
#95. Why would Franco want Dre dead? Franco was a dope boy and had his own small crew, but him and Queen's crew never crossed paths because Franco operated out of New Jersey.
Porscha Sterling
#96. My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
Dr. Dre
#97. The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
Curtis Jackson
#99. I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good.
Rahki
#100. 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
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