Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• For Eid - or Raya, as the Malaysians call it - we love to shop for new clothes for the festive season. There will be open houses to go to, and Malaysians love to look good for these.

  

  Yuna
  • Clothes
  • Season
  • Shop

• You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Live
  • Night

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Thing
  • Say

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Try
  • Saying
  • Coach

• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Trying

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • True

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• This chance will stand before you only once.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Chance

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• Despite what you hear, we don't need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • America

• Mohd Rafi saab and I fought over royalty rights. At a meeting attended by prominent singers and musicians, he stood up and said, 'Main aaj se Lata ke saath nahin gaoonga'. I retorted, 'Rafi saab, ek minute. Aap nahin gaayenge mere saath yeh galat baat hai. Main aapke saath nahin gaoongee'. I stormed out and called all my composers there and then and informed them to rope in another singer if it was a duet with Rafi saab.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Up
  • Rights
  • Musicians

• Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance