Ice T Quotes

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I usually think in terms of music.

Fiction lags after truth.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.