Top 66 Scarface Quotes

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 want to be a scratch golfer. And when I’m 50, I want to play on the Senior PGA Tour.

Scarface is just a character. He’s just something to look at. He’s not nothing to be.

I’m one of the best producers, one of the best singers. You hear me? I’m not just one of the best rappers. I’m one of the greatest ever.

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

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 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 like A$AP Rocky, because I think he’s really brilliant.

I don’t like the lip-syncing-type videos. I like for people to listen to the words and see the visual.

America has that agenda, a White supremacist agenda.

I don’t like any of the Geto Boys albums at all. Not one. There isn’t a Geto Boys album that I like. I didn’t learn anything from it, and it was a bad time in life for me too. With the label, with life, whatever… it’s a point in my life where I was the most miserable.

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.

Emeritus’ was supposed to be my last album, but things change.

I just wanted to impress the guys in the neighborhood that I grew up with.

I’m serious about golf.

In my case, I’m kind of set in my ways, I love to be me.

I was still in high school when my career started.

There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.

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.

My timing came from Funkadelic, definitely.

I feel like music should be recycled. You take what you get from whoever you get it from, and you put you in it.

It’s always been my time. I’m a musician, and musicians are time-less.

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.

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 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.

The more negative hype we get, the more records we sell, know what I’m saying?

The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.

You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.

I’m in Houston on the golf course doing 18 holes every day that I don’t have to work or it rains.

Mind Playing Tricks on Me’ or ‘Mind of a Lunatic’ were great songs. As far as my favorite Geto Boys album? None of them impress me.

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.

I don’t know what’s so disappointing about being alive, but I will say that the longer I’m alive, the more I appreciate not dying.

It’s a lot of people who can perform, but they can’t write. And it’s a lot of people that can write that can’t perform.

Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that’s a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.

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.

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 play golf every day if I can, but it’s not fun and games for me.

My responsibility is to feed my family. My responsibility is to support myself.

At the end of the day, you never put your hands on a woman under any circumstances.

I grew up listening to great music that molded my character and my artistry, that helped me.

Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don’t get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.

I love the Velvet Underground, bro.

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!

Coldplay was big for me in the 2000s. ‘Parachutes’ was a good album.

There are so many other rappers that’s way better than me. I’m in agreement with that.

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.

I love golf for the challenge in it. That’s the only sport I know that you can do the same thing over and over and over and over and expect different results.

We all know that I failed as a parent. I’ll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that’s how I would rather leave that.

I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.

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.

Sweet Jane’ is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

I’m a musician, first and foremost.

You know what, if Rick Rubin would produce another Geto Boys album I’d do it.

I want to be the best in what I do, just like everybody else.

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 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.

I love ‘Pac to death man but let that man rest.

I think one man, one vote. One woman, one vote. But it doesn’t work like that. It’s not cool.

I don’t want to be put in a position where I have to make records for anybody other than me.

Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words – that makes us a little bit more intimate.

In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.

I don’t feel like I have to fit in. I don’t even feel like I even should fit in. I feel like I should just do.

I don’t want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.

I know how I feel about my music and how passionate I am. I’m not a fly-by-night 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.