Top 209 Quotes & Sayings by Curtis Jackson - Page 3

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

I have less compassion than the average human.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.

If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it's incredible.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better

I've been patiently waiting to blow!

God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana

If you don't have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you're tryin to move into new situations then you can't even evolve.

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

Get rich or die tryin'.

Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks, I love you like a fat kid love cake.

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel

When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

I'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

I never allowed my fear to limit me.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red.

If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you're in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

Actions may make you appear to be someone else, when people actually find out what you're doing.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

You gotta be smart enough to pick up the information as you go.

Move before you think you are ready. It is as if you are making it a little more difficult for yourself, deliberately creating obstacles in your path When you feel that you must work harder to get to your goal because you are not quite prepared, you are more alert and inventive. This venture has to succeed and so it will.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

The more my fans know about my past, the more they'll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.