Ice Cube Music Quotes

#1. I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

Ice Cube

#2. I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.

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#3. 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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#4. Deny giving the bad energy to manifest and embrace the good. Rinse and Repeat.

Jes Fuhrmann

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

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#6. I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young.

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#7. People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

Dennis Rainey

#8. Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

John Brown

#9. I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

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#10. The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

Oren Peli

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

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#12. Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

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

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#14. If you had something to tie you back to your old life, would you keep it or destroy it?

Aimee Carter

#15. 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.

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#16. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

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#17. 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.

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#18. It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

David Bowie

#19. I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

C.S. Lewis

#23. I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.

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#24. Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

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#25. People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

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#26. If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

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#27. the sound of one's own voice has a powerful effect on any man,

Ivan Turgenev

#28. 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.

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#29. Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

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#30. 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.

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#31. If we tolerate prejudice toward any group, we tolerate it toward all groups," he said. "I couldn't have relationships that were conditional on excluding my brother - or anyone else. We are all in one fight, and our freedom is all the same freedom.

Andrew Solomon

#32. Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

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#33. The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.

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#34. 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.

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#35. I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

B.R. Ambedkar