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I'm never drunk on the road, and since I've got to take care of my voice, smoke is definitely not allowed.
People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.
When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up.
I don't do intoxicants on tour too often. It slows me down mentally, and it feels like killing brain cells.
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.
A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.
I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
More than anything, 'Purple Kisses' just came about because I'm very hands on, especially in relationships.
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.
You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.
They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.
The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist
I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.
I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.
The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.
I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".
I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.
I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.
I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
It's really cool to be around people that are younger than you who are really cool with being open about stuff.
Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.
I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.