Quotes by Vanilla Ice - Page 2

To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
No Idea
Offense
Opinion
Critic
Dictate
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Mom
Baby
Grandparent
Ice
Ninja
Soccer
Broad
Demographic
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Opening
Overnight Success
People
Thinking
Years
Blew
Contract
Opening Act
Overnight
Signed
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Tomorrow
Yesterday
In The Past
Negatives
Positives
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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Happy
Bad Choices
Choices
Cruise
Modest
Pleasure
Today
Tough
Upbringing
Pretty
Bad
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I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Giving
Ideas
Opinion
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Black
Common
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Intense
Shining
Stuff
Young
Cent
Rob
Jay-Z
Metal
Shine
Underground
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Kids
Caught
Real
Years
Underground
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Don't Care
Invites
Jam
Experience Man Me
Drum
Drum Set
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My sound has changed. It's still hiphop, but it's more of like a rock/hip-hop show. It's high energy, stage diving, pyrotechnics, girls showing their breasts. It's crazy party atmosphere.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Girl
Crazy
Party
Rocks
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
People
Perceive
Persona
Rock Star
Rocks
Stars
Life Me Lose
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Anger
Depression
Dark
Stress
Writing
Album
Contained
Vent
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Honestly
Millions
People
Records
Selling
World
Life Success World
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Embrace
No Idea
Overwhelming
People New Know
People New See
Expect
So Many People
Sold
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I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
People
Rap
White
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Family
Friends
Success
Money
Enjoy
Fame
Matter
No Friends
Life Success Money
Life Family Money
Life Success Family
Much
How
Enjoying
How Much
How Much Money
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Age
Explicit
Groups
Radio
Real
Age Group
Album
Contains
Designed
Edit
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I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Kind
Session
Therapy
Trapped
Used
Very Good
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Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Car
Bigger
Finding Happiness
House
Yacht
Anymore
Nicer
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What makes critics dictate what is cool and what is not. What gives them the pass to say that their opinion on music or movies or anything is what should be cool and what shouldn't. I don't think it should be up to one person.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Giving
Opinion
Thinking
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I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Matter
Real
Want
Enables
Finances
Held
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I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Confidence
Bones
Broken
Eight
Freestyle
Jumping
Years
Quit
Ride
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"Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold."
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Ice
People
Rap
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Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Confidence
Egotistical
Games
People
Think Big
Thinking
Talk
Anywhere
Game People Never
Game
Call
Listen
Dissect
High
Hopes
Some
Some People
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For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Ice
Three
Years
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Legends
Records
Sell
Million
Sir
Tour
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This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Intense
Machines
Sample
Stuff
Writing
Life I Am Me
Totally
Beat
Life Me I Am
Direction
Drum
Influenced
Loop
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All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Kids
Hard Work
Years
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Family
Friends
Happiness
Family And Friends
Ferrari
Found
Mansions
One Thing
Value Of Life
Life Happiness Family
Understand
Bank
Buy
Depressed
Fitted
Learned
Value
Yachts
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Girl
Bucks
Crew
Forty
Jam
Pizza
Squat
Years
Change Good Day
Box
Cardboard
Chase
Mall
Pretty Good
Spin
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Home
Baby
Ice
Miami
Mountain
Profit
Selling
Surprise
Utah
Bought
Cabin
Cobweb
Fox
Palace
Properties
Several
Sold
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Blow
Classical Music
Following
Music Thinking Mind
Calms
Classical
Mode
Nobody Else
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The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Family And Friends
Lessons
No Friends
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As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is deeper than a tattoo. It'll remind you of the car you're driving and the girl you're going around with and the streets you're cruising. It's better than a photo album. A song is a tattoo that you never lose. 'Ice, Ice Baby,' man, you'll remember that when you're 90.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Girl
Baby
Song
Tattoo
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You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.
Vanilla Ice / Rapper
Change
Names
Stars
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