Quotes from 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.

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.

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'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

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.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

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.

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.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

My father is the oldest of seven boys.

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.

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.

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.

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

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.

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.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

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.

There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.

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.

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