T La Rock Quotes

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.

I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it.

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about.

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.

That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!

They don't want you to vote. If they did, we wouldn't vote on a Tuesday. In November. You ever throw a party on a Tuesday? No. Because nobody would come.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

I love black people, but I hate niggers.

I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should take things too seriously, because everything except death works itself out.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

America is the only place where people go hunting on a full stomach.

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.