Vanilla Ice Quotes

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Vanilla Ice

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 31, 1968

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.

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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

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Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

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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.

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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

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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.

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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

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With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

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My main thing is music; it's what I do.

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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.

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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

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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.

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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

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I've never met anybody in this world like me.

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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.

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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

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