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.
ICE CUBEI grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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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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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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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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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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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.
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