Dr. Dre Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

BSB are my personal favorites.

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

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

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.

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.

When faced with defeat, rise to your feet!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.

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.

I've got more class than most.

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