Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
ICE CUBEYou don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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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.
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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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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. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
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I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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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.
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The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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