Top 50 Ad-Rock Quotes

Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I’m watching ‘Night of the Living Dead Part Two’ all day, every day.

I hated Led Zeppelin at school.

I’ve only done karaoke twice in my life.

It takes a lot of guts to get on stage.

I’m not saying that kids today have everything, but with the Internet, it’s like, you have it there, so use it! I know a bunch of kids who are into cassette tapes now. Cassette tapes suck! Why not use your iPod?

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

If I could sing, that would be cool. But I can’t. I mean, I physically can, but I’m awful. It’s weird to be really bad at singing.

Our music is weird. It’s not pop. I don’t know why so many people buy our records.

I love being in the Beastie Boys.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I don’t know why we sold a lot of records or why so many people came to see us. Like ‘Sabotage’ – would you put that song on, like, ‘I’m gonna listen to that right now?’ It’s a weird choice.

You think about when you’re with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you’re doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.

I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever else. And in a way, ‘Check Your Head’ ended up being like one of those pause-tapes.

If I had to say something, it would be ‘Lighten up. Be cool.’ There’s just so many buffoons out there.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an actor.

The Beatles are great for everybody – they write the songs that made the whole world sing.

I don’t really get a lot of stuff sent to me, but I do get things given to me in person. One of my favorites was from a kid in the mid-’90s. He gave us all a bunch of pants he made.

A lot of Jewish kids do identify with us.

I’d like to be in an action movie.

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, ‘We should do it.’ We weren’t making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

I trust anybody’s memory more than I trust mine.

I’ll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

I’ve fallen to make people laugh. Often.

I lost my mom when I was young.

I own a car: a minivan. But don’t tell anyone, ’cause they’re gonna ask to borrow it.

We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.

I reject Donald Trump’s mission of America.

You have to consume Fig Newtons with either milk or an alternative milk product. It’s like a conspiracy with the dairy industry. They’re in cahoots.

‘Licensed to Ill’ was like a cold, and we took so much vitamin C that we’d never get that cold again.

I got no business going to a club. I’m a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.

The two biggest influences of the ’70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.

A lot of people are trying to get me to go solo. It’s just a thing I have to deal with a lot. Record labels are always trying to get me to go solo.

I know Noah Baumbach from a long time ago. We were hanging out one night, and he asked if I wanted to be in his movie. If somebody whose stuff you really like says, ‘Hey, you want to do it with me?,’ you got to do it. I would like to say that I get these offers all the time, but I don’t.

My specialties include macaroni and cheese and ordering Chinese-food delivery.

I don’t use coconut enough – in food, on my body.

‘Grand Royal’ started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour, and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. Stop doing that. MTV has ruined it, and it’s dangerous, and girls are getting hurt.

I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it’s drawing or dancing or listening to music or bowling, whatever it is that makes you happy, I would focus on that, and you’ll definitely gain some confidence.

You’d think that my acting in ‘Lost Angels’ would have been the reason why I gave up on it. But yeah, I’m just not that good at it. Auditioning is super weird, and I’m bad at it.

I don’t even know what is popular.

I guess I’m the guy from the Beastie Boys. I’m one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that’s what I’ll always identify myself as.

You know how there’s all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on ‘Andy Griffith,’ they had Aunt B.

New York taught me everything.

I would love to be in an action movie. I’ve always wanted to play the hacker guy – like, the Jewy hacker guy who just gets yelled at.

Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties – there’s some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

We’ve gotta stand up against hate. If you’re able to give money, give to Black Lives Matter. If you’re able to protest, protest. If you’re able to volunteer, volunteer.

Since high school, I was in this band. And you know, it’s one thing when you’re in a band in high school, but then to have it last for so long – that’s who I am and what I did forever.