Dr. Dre quotes

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority has always hated me.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I don’t chase money—I try to make the money chase me

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

One, two, three and to the four

Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door

Ready to make an entrance so back on up

'Cause you know we're 'bout to rip shit up

Compton and Long Beach together, now you know you in trouble

Ain't nothin' but a "G" thang, baby

Since the last time you heard from me I lost some friends

Well, hell, me and Snoop, we dippin' again

Kept my ear to the streets, signed Eminem

He's triple platinum, doin' fifty a week

I used to know a bitch named Eric Wright

We used to roll around and fuck the hoes at night

Tighter than a motherfucker with the gangster beats

And we was ballin' on the motherfuckin' Compton streets, peep

I don’t know if anything can ever be perfect, you know? I don’t even want it to be perfect because human aren’t perfect so the music shouldn’t be.

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 was bred for this from birth. My mother has a picture of me in a onesie putting a needle to a turntable

I’ve always been able to bet on myself, and whatever I do and wherever I go, I know I have my talent with me.

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.

When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

If you’re not sincere with it, you shouldn’t say anything at all.

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.

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 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.

I remember back in the days when I used to have to get my stroll on

Didn't nobody wanna speak

Now everybody peepin' out they window when they hear me beatin' up the street

Listening to the stuff on the radio today, you’d think rap is one big sample. That’s an insult to all of us who’ve been here from the beginning

Well, I'm peepin' and I'm creepin' and I'm creepin'

But I damn near got caught 'cause my beeper kept beepin'

Now it's time for me to make my impression felt

So sit back, relax, and strap on your seat belt

I'm representin' for them gangstas all across the world

(Still) Hittin' them corners in them low-lows, girl

Still takin' my time to perfect the beat

And I still got love for the streets, it's the D.R.E.

Still ain't trippin', love to see young blacks get money

Spend time out the hood, take they moms out the hood

Hit my boys off with jobs, no more livin' hard (Nah, nah)