Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
ICE CUBEI am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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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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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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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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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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You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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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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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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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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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’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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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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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.
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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.
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