Dr. Dre
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.Collection: God
I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Music
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Fear
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Work
I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.Collection: Learning
If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
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?
I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.
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.
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
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.
In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.
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.
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.
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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.
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.
I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
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.
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?
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.
I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.
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.
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.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
I like working with new artists.
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
I have social anxiety.
I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.
I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.
I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.
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.
I have tons of music stashed.