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Dr. Dre Quotes

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

– Dr. Dre

Mission accomplished, we didn’t have any problems as far as violence goes.

– Dr. Dre

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

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I’ve lived quite a few lives.

– Dr. Dre

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

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

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

– Dr. Dre

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

– Dr. Dre

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

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

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

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

– Dr. Dre

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Dr. Dre

I am never going to give music up.

– Dr. Dre

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

I’m never gonna stop music, it’s like air to me.

– Dr. Dre

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

– Dr. Dre

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

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

– Dr. Dre

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

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