54 Dr. Dre Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dr. Dre

American Musician

Born: Feb 18, 1965

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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

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I am never going to give music up. Dr. Dre

Music Give Never Am Up Going

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

Time Me Age Mother Got Unheard Fifteen Pregnant

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

Music Somebody Down Thinking Entertaining No Idea Records He Idea Because Making Break Process Explain Watch Thinks

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

Good Me Crazy You People Money Wait Approach Say Says Tell Entertaining More Part Investment Weird Like Look Make Because Always Any Them Then Who Expression Need

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. Dr. Dre

Me Song Remember Mother Old Drop Out Would Record About Ten Finish Songs Remember When Picking Like House Go Years Stack Just After Them Next Certain Four

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. Dr. Dre

Song Remember Made Name Version Original

I like working with new artists. Dr. Dre

New Like Artists Working

When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go. Dr. Dre

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The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business. Dr. Dre

Business Record Part Exciting Most Making Actual

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them. Dr. Dre

People Sit Down Other Records Make Listen Afterwards Them

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. Dr. Dre

Music Musicians Own Our Record Some Records Studio Mainly Come Call Lot Up Replay Where Sample Sampling Original

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Dr. Dre

Time Long Long Time Something Instrumental Been Wanting Album

I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it. Dr. Dre

Love Music Myself Passion See Totally Retiring Because Genuine Ever

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me. Dr. Dre

Me Age Hated Always Authority Early Early Age

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record. Dr. Dre

Record Take Make Hit Hit Record

I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes. Dr. Dre

Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that. Dr. Dre

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