Dr. Dre Quotes

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Dr. Dre

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 18, 1965

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

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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.

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I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

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Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.

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The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

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If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.

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When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

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I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.

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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.

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Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.

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I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

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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.

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

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The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

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There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

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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.

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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.

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'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.

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I'm going to record forever.

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