Ice Cube Quotes

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I think rap is all about what you feel about a situation and not just about cars, alcohol and women.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

Music is how you feel.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I can't imagine life without singing.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

When words leave off, music begins.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.