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.
ICE CUBEThere’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
More Ice Cube Quotes
-
-
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
ICE CUBE -
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
ICE CUBE -
Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
ICE CUBE -
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
ICE CUBE -
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
ICE CUBE -
I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
ICE CUBE -
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
ICE CUBE -
There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
ICE CUBE -
The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
ICE CUBE -
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
ICE CUBE -
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.
ICE CUBE -
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
ICE CUBE -
You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
ICE CUBE -
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
ICE CUBE -
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
ICE CUBE