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.
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.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
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've always been a lunatic.
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.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.
Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
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.
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.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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.
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'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
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.
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.
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.
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.
I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.
I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'
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'm a fan of J. Cole.
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.
When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
I'm a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That's what I do. But I've gotten on the mic a few times in my career; people seem to like it, so I'll do it again here and there. But that's really not my thing.
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.
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.
My father is the oldest of seven boys.
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
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.
In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
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.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
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.
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 am never going to give music up.
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 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 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.
I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating?
