Ice Cube Quotes

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

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 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.

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.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

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.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

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.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

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. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

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.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches.

He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that.

It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

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.

I think reading is important in any form.

I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

South Central is just who I am.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile.

I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done.

It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.

A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.