Dr. Dre on magic
Dr. Dre53 quotes“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 been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes… Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.
Dr. DreDr. Dre You’re a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.
Dr. DreDr. 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. DreDr. 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. DreDr. Dre I’m bad for your health, like puttin’ a pistol up to your face and blastin’ yourself.
Dr. DreDr. Dre I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
Dr. DreDr. 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. DreDr. 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. DreDr. Dre 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.
Dr. DreDr. Dre 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. DreDr. Dre I’m expressin’ with my full capabilities, And now I’m livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don’t agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.
Dr. DreDr. Dre Those who are quiet will always cause riots.
Dr. DreDr. 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. DreDr. 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. DreDr. Dre Children listen, I’m trying to tell you something good, don’t get caught up in the hood.
Dr. DreDr. 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. DreDr. Dre
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