Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Scarface
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I just want to make sure I hold up my end of the bargain. My commitment is to the people that listen to my music.
There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.
If you listen to my music then you've been all through District D. That's the South Side of Houston, Texas. That's where I was born and raised.
I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.
I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.
You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.
I was straight listening to rap at 15: LL Cool J, the Skinny Boys, Whistle, UTFO. And Run-D.M.C.'s debut was at the top of my list.
I think one man, one vote. One woman, one vote. But it doesn't work like that. It's not cool.
I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.
My timing came from Funkadelic, definitely.
I don't want to be put in a position where I have to make records for anybody other than me.
I remember my uncle used to work pouring concrete and as a plumber. Now, I don't see uncles working as plumbers or pouring concrete no more. Let's open up some trades for these youngsters that are getting out of school that are not gonna go to college.
I had to learn how to eat to live and not live to eat.
Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain't hiding behind a desk talking. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that's what Jay Prince is.
At the end of the day, you never put your hands on a woman under any circumstances.
I want to be a scratch golfer. And when I'm 50, I want to play on the Senior PGA Tour.
I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.
I play as many instruments as Prince, and I can write as many songs as him, but he'll be way better than me forever.
I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.
My cousin is Johnny Nash, 'I Can See Clearly Now' Johnny Nash. So I know what to do just by watching what he did. He had a brilliant career. He wrote one of the biggest songs in music history.
A Tribe Called Quest really made me want to rap.
I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.
Growing up, I got a chance to witness a lot of struggle in my neighborhood. A lot of people struggled, myself included. As I got older I noticed that there was still a lot of struggling going on.
I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.
Pac never had a license. He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, 'Get in. We're goin' to jail!' I ain't going nowhere with you.
You know what, if Rick Rubin would produce another Geto Boys album I'd do it.
Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. 'Parachutes' was a good album.
I'm serious about golf.
I play golf every day if I can, but it's not fun and games for me.
My marriage to music came from KISS.
I've learned from the best. I've had the best teachers in the game.
I love 'Pac to death man but let that man rest.
In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.
I grew up listening to great music that molded my character and my artistry, that helped me.
At first, we knew what was going on in Compton by the music that we heard. We knew what was going on in Chicago by the music that we made. We knew what was going on in Houston by the music that was going on in Houston.
Golf is the best game that you'll never learn how to play.
Emeritus' was supposed to be my last album, but things change.
You never know what's next for me. I might go into making one of them rock bands.
I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.
I'm always gonna be a part of the industry. I may just not be a part of the music industry as Scarface.
Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface.
Don't label me before we get a chance to talk about it. Talk to me first and see what kind of person I am. That's what I like to tell the media: Come talk to me, let's sit down and talk about what's really going on.
I spent a lot of time in hospitals for depression.
I think that my favorite album has to be 'The Fix' because I was in a very comfortable place. Mentally, financially... I was in a great place. Def Jam really took care of me, Lyor Cohen took care of me and that's why that great. Kanye West was just starting off and being the great producer that he is - it came out incredible.
I really believe that God spared me, and I'm thankful for that. Imagine if I would've died when I was seven, 12 years old.
I would spend a lot of time alone. I'd go in my room at my mom's house and not come out for weeks, just trying to find me. And I didn't always like what I found.
Scarface is just a character. He's just something to look at. He's not nothing to be.
I never looked at it like I'm one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I'm just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!
Police are the enforcers of America's agenda.
You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.
America has that agenda, a White supremacist agenda.
Every time I'm out on the road, everywhere I go, somebody got a demo for me.
When I was 5, 'American Bandstand' had a lot of good artists on there, man. That's when I really started falling in love with the jams: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Patti LaBelle, Bootsy Collins, Parliament.
I think that the music that I listened to turned me into the artist that I am.
I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.
The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.
I fought COVID double bilateral pneumonia - both lungs - and kidney failure in my house.
People called me Scarface cause I gave them a reason to.
I'm in Houston on the golf course doing 18 holes every day that I don't have to work or it rains.
That's my passion. To make sure everybody is treated equally. To make sure we get equal justice. To make sure that everybody is on the same level playing field.
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