Ad-Rock Quotes

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

A man is only as faithful as his options.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

You can never make a woman happy, it's impossible. I've never met a happy woman in my life. They're always complaining about something.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

Pretty girls have problems too.

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Large like the Beatles, ask all my peoples, never make movies, so don't talk sequels.

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.' Nobody give a fk about dads!

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously...

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.