Top 55 Ice Cube Quotes

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.

I don’t get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I’m doing it the right way. You can’t do nothing but respect that.

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.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.

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.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.

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 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.

I never get tired of ‘It Was A Good Day‘ references or jokes or anything like that. It’s just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.

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.

If it was all about me, I’d do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it’s never been all about me. It’s all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can’t speak for themselves, who don’t have a mic, don’t have a say.

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

South Central is just who I am.

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.’

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.

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.

There’s a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

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!

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

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.

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.

I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

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.

My son, O’Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

Sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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 think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

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 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.

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times it’s leftovers from one of my wife‘s dinners.

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.

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.

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

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 believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I’m always the ‘less is more‘ guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don’t head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.’

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.

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.

When I did ‘Boyz N The Hood’, I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.