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. DREThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.
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When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.
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Try to be the king, but the ace is back.
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People aren’t hearing all the music.
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Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.
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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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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?
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The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
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I just want to get my music out and make sure that it’s heard in the right way.
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Don’t be worried about the next man – make sure your business tight.
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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.
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