Famous Quotes
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"For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"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."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"You don't "wanna "mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'"
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'"
Quote by -Ice Cube
"But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time."
Quote by -Ice Cube
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger