Ice Cube Quotes And Sayings

'Boyz-n-the-hood' Was Actually Supposed To Be Written For Eazy's Group. He Had A Group Out In New York Called Home Boys Only, Called Hbo. One Of Them Looked Like Ll Cool J. Eazy Wanted To Write A Song For Them, A Street Song, Like What We Were Doing On The Mix Tapes. So When I Wrote It, It Was Too West Coast For Them.

Sports Without Music Is Just A Game. Music Makes It Entertaining.

I Really Appreciate Family. I Really Can't Imagine Life Without Them!

I 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.

I'm Just An Entertainer, Man. I Don't Like To Pigeonhole Myself To Anything. I Love To Do It All.

I Think The Worst Thing You Can Do About A Situation Is Nothing.

Young People Are Dying For No Reason All Over The World That Don't Know Why. It's Ugly, Everywhere.

I Love Any Time You Can Enlighten People To Mistakes, That's How I Started My Career.

Don't Get A Movie Confused With Real Life. I'm A Well-rounded Human Being Like Everyone Else.

If You Think About Stuff That Happened When You Were Young, It Stays With You Forever.

Rap Is Just Somebody Getting Something Off His Chest. That's All It Is.

When I Was In N.w.a. And Didn't Get Paid All The Money I Was Owed, That's When The Business Side Of Showbiz Hit Me.

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.

When People See The Cubevision Logo, They Should Know It's Something Good, Something Worth Checking Out.

I've Been Caught In Parachute Pants. And On My High School Yearbook, They Used The Wrong Picture. They Were Supposed To Use The Picture Of Me With A Nice Suit On. They Used Me With My Collar Flipped Up, In A Fuchsia And White Striped Shirt. I Blame Prince And Michael Jackson In The Eighties For That.

Twerking Has To End. Not For The Ones That Look Good Doing It, But For All The Ones That You Feel, 'You Don't Have Enough To Twerk Back There. Your Twerkin' Look Like Jerkin.'

South Central Is Just Who I Am.

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.

I Did 'Are We There Yet?' Because I Wanted To Do A Movie For My Fans' Kids. Black Kids Don't Really See Movies On This Budget For Them, Starring Them. And There's So Many White Kids That Love That Movie.

You Like A Woman, She's Got Kids, It's A Package. You Can't Just Go In One-sided.

Ice Cube Is The Piece Of Me That I Give Away To The Public.

I'm Not The Type Of Actor Who Is Trying To Do A Whole Bunch Of Different Stuff, You Know What I Mean?

We're In This Entertainment Business Really To Give The Audience What They Want.

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.

South Central Is Just Who I Am. Even Though I Have A Nice House, Nice Family, The Rest Of My Generation Is Still In South Central L.a. My Cousins, My Brothers, My Sisters, They Don't Wanna Move Out.

I Been All Around The World And I Haven't Found A City That I'd Rather Be From Or Rather Come Back To Than Los Angeles.

I Love Music. It's Freedom, A Way To Deal With Pent-up Frustration.

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.

When I Did 'Boyz N The Hood', I Never Thought How We Grew Up In South Central Was Interesting Enough For A Movie.

Early In My Career, People Wanted To Hear Music About Protest, About Trying To Change Things.

Music Has Done A Lot To Enhance The Emotions Of Sports. It's Played In Arenas. Whenever There Is Footage Cut Together They're Always Using Music. And It Goes Together, You Know.

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.

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.

It's Not Like I'm The First Man Ever To Do This, Y'know? You Gotta Go Back To Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby And Sammy Davis Jr. Those Are People Who've Done Music Well And Movies Well, And Y'know, Frank Sinatra And Elvis And All These Dudes Have Made The Transition. I Don't Know About Elvis, 'Bout Doin' 'Em Good, Y'know? It's Nothin' New.

It Never Gets Old. Working With Somebody Like Kevin Hart Is Rejuvenating In A Lot Of Ways. He's Such A Pro. He's So Good.

Snoop Dog Is The Phil Jackson Of Youth Football Coaches. He Ain't Going To Accept Nothing But A Winner.

I'm A B-boy At Heart. I Still Like Rhyming. It's Just The Radio Game Is Like Chinese Arithmetic. It's Hard To Know What Nuts To Crack. But I Still Love Music, Been Dropping Music. Never Stopped, Really.

I Was Ready To Get Out Of The Box And Play Something A Little Different Than What Everybody Has Seen.

The Moral Is That A Career Can Be Gone In An Instant. And All You Have In This World Are The People You Love.

I've Got A Basketball Signed By All The Greats From Julius Irving To Oscar Robinson. It Was At An All Star Game I Got Them All To Sign It. So That Ain't Going Nowhere. I'm Going To Die With That In My Casket.

My Son, O'shea. He Looks Like Me, And He Can Rhyme.

My Son Darrel Could Recite 'Straight Outta Compton' At Two Years Old. He Loved It! You Can Expose Your Kids To Anything As Long As You Sit There And Explain It To Them.

Can't Step From One Movie Set To The Next. Only Samuel L. Jackson Can Do That. All Us Mere Mortals Can't Do That!