Dre Quotes & Sayings

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game. — Mac Dre

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. — Dr. Dre

Roll the weed up
Somebody turn the beat up
While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up
Mac game so cold make yo nose runny
Mac game so cold takin' hoes money — Mac Dre

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives. — Dr. Dre

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound ... that's all good. — Dr. Dre

I apologize to the women I've hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives. — Dr. Dre

the girls on the track team do their thang, when I spot ass. See, when ya boy spots ass, I be on it. I leave Dre and Twan, my teammates, and head over to see what the face looks like that's connected to this ass. Oh yea, I'm Rashard Peterson, number 06, quarterback for UMA. This is my last year and I'll have my Bachelors in Business Management. I do my thang with Twan and Dre in these streets too. If you want some weed, I got you, but that's pretty much all I'll touch. I never keep enough on me to get a charge. The most I'll have on me is a blunt and shit, that's for recreational use. Ya boy ain't dumb by a long shot. That's why I got this degree in the works, so I can open up different businesses. Anyway, if you want pills then holla at Twan; my boy got opioids, tabs, Xanax — Linette King

I bring terror like Stephen King,
A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine — Dr. Dre

You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out. — Busta Rhymes

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. — Dr. Dre

If there is destruction of hope, there is freedom from gods [lha]; if there is destruction of fear, there is freedom from spirits ['dre, demons]. — Machik Labdron

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50. — Rutina Wesley

I'm high off the indo creepin' with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut. — Dr. Dre

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em. — Dr. Dre

I want to set the record straight for everybody who's been waiting to hear my music. The song that's on the internet is an incomplete song that I'm still working on. When it's ready, you'll be hearing it from me. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay — Drake

I've got more class than most. — Dr. Dre

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. — Dr. Dre

I don't have room in my life for folks that large and demanding. — Dr. Dre

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet — Dr. Dre

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges. — Dr. Dre

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

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem. — Curtis Jackson

Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap. — Matthew Gasteier

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those. — Busta Rhymes

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. — Dr. Dre

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

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware. — Kendrick Lamar

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. — Dr. Dre

The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you. — Dr. Dre

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. — Dr. Dre

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me. — Dr. Dre

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

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning. — F. Gary Gray

Why would Franco want Dre dead? Franco was a dope boy and had his own small crew, but him and Queen's crew never crossed paths because Franco operated out of New Jersey. — Porscha Sterling

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. — Kendrick Lamar

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. — Dr. Dre

When faced with defeat, rise to your feet! — Dr. Dre

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference. — Dr. Dre

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

The steak ain't right without the A-1
So I stay dipped in sauce and they come — Mac Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

Some relationships are like glass its better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together again.
When you start reading the Bunna Man, most of my readers hate Dre and then they realize that Dre doesn't really have any power. The only power he has is the one Saf gave him. What happens now is that by you reach the middle of the story, your anger turns from Dre to Saf cause you realize that Saf is the catalyst behind her own misery. If she'd leave Dre alone. Her suffering would end — Crystal Evans

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan. — Obie Trice

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be. — Dr. Dre

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody. — Dr. Dre

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

Our Welsh teacher thinks he is young. He tells us that the Welsh for skiving in town is 'mitchio yn y dre'. — Joe Dunthorne

There's people who I admire like ... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going. — Wiz Khalifa

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

As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya know Dr. Dre made the hardest gangsta rap records in the world, that didn't necessarily make him a gangsta. It was all like ya know : character, we were all in character. — DJ Quik

Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems. — French Montana

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60 ... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there. — Warren G

Typically, I like my women tall, lean, blonde, and a little on the "easy" side. Who doesn't really? I sound like an ass, don't I? - Dre — Angelisa Stone

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

The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls. — Crystal Evans

I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good. — Rahki

But look, I cleared out all y'all that got in the way/And y'all knew that I was ill, but now my doctor is Dre — Jon Connor

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E. — Dr. Dre

You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts. — Dr. Dre

You killed him."
I held up my index finger and my thumb, slowly closing the gap between them, peering over at Dre through the tiny slit that remained. "Little bit."
"I don't think you can kill someone a little bit."
"Oh, well then, a lot bit. I killed him a lot bit. — T.M. Frazier

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do. — Dr. Dre

I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game. — Mac Dre

Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles — Walter Isaacson

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. — Tupac Shakur

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album. — Dr. Dre

If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening. — Dr. Dre

I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up. — Obie Trice

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable. — Michael Eric Dyson

A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym ... so I took his advice. — Warren G

Try to be the king, but the ace is back. — Dr. Dre

Eazy, Dre, Cube. Conceptualizer, musicalizer, lyricizer. Father, son, and holy ghost. The trinity behind N.W.A. — Jerry Heller

Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes. — Dr. Dre

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got? — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

When I'm lovin' these hoes, there ain't no love involved. — Dr. Dre

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes. — Dr. Dre

BSB are my personal favorites. — Dr. Dre

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet. — Dr. Dre

Thizz iz wat it iz — Mac Dre

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes ...
Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons. — Dr. Dre

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

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

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'. — Dr. Dre

I made a man out of you, you made a joke out of me. — Crystal Evans

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. — Dr. Dre

Those who are quiet will always cause riots. — Dr. Dre

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. — Dr. Dre

Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too. — Warren G

Been there, done that
Sold crack, got jacked
Got shot, came back
Jumped on Dre's back! — Jayceon Terrell Taylor

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about. — Kendrick Lamar

This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts."
- Eminem
"Dope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful."
- Guru (Gang Starr)
"You like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but go ahead."
- Mary J. Blige
"Definitely a real interview! Digging deep up in there, man. Not afraid to ask questions!"
- K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci)
"The Wizard asked me for a copy of your magazine."
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk)
"You didn't wear your glasses and you haven't carried your hearing aid. What else is wrong with you?"
- Bushwick Bill
"Peace and blessing, Brother Harris. Thank you for inspiring my words. Keep 'yo balance."
- Erykah Badu
"Can I see that pen?"
- Bobby Brown
"What else do you want to know? Talk to me."
- Aaliyah — Harris Rosen

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? — Dr. Dre

Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label]. — Killer Mike