Al R. Young Quotes

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

Real recognize real, I suppose.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.

I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

All of North Korea is a jail.

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

I just put anything on my back. I take what I have on hand.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.