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" 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

Down

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Music

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" I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less. "

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

" I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again. "

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

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Two

" No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. "

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

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" I'm going to record forever. "

" I'm so secluded, and I'm so private. "

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Private

" The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it. "

" I like working with new artists. "

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New

" I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that. "

" 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. "

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Easy

Thinking

" It's always been difficult to make a good record. "

" 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. "

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I Can

Live

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

" I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living. "

" I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet. "

" 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 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'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me. "

" 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. "

" Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.' "

" 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 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 am never going to give music up. "

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Going

I Am

" 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?' "