There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.
— Dr. Dre
I have social anxiety.
I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.
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.
It's always been difficult to make a good record.
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 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.
I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.
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 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 am never going to give music up.
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'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.
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
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.
In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
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 fan of J. Cole.
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.
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.
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?
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
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 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.
I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the 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.
Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
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.
Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.
Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.
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.
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 I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.
I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.
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.
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.
I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
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 just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right 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 got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
