100 Quotes by DJ Premier

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I believe in karma; what you do will come back.

I'm a very humble guy, but of course I think I'm dope.

You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.

I'm not a tough guy, but I'll throw down just like the rest of them if I have to.

Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot.

I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.

I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right?

Prince, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire and Parliament all had albums that sound different. I wanted to show, as a hip-hop producer, I'm one of those that can do anything, because I was raised on so much music aside from rap and hip-hop.