I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.
I'm not a pioneer of hip-hop; I just saw it and said, 'This thing is incredible, and these people are incredible. They should be exposed all over the world.'
My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
People need service - great service where music is concerned.
There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.
Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.
Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.
I feel open to anything.
It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
If you follow the lead of the artists, they will take you places that you could never go on your own.
I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.
Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.
I never say someone is powerful.
The sound of my voice is more famous than me.
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.
