Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
ICE CUBEMost 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.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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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 always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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I know my flavor’s going to work because I just know there’s not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what’s that about you.
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A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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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 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’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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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 think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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