Top 140 Curtis Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If I don’t make music I’m going back to the hood. I’ll sell crack. I’m gonna go back to sell crack if I can’t make it in the music business and that’s what I was doing before that.”

— Curtis Jackson

102. “I never allowed my fear to limit me.”

— Curtis Jackson

103. “I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.”

— Curtis Jackson

104. “I think it’s easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I’m a bad person.”

— Curtis Jackson

105. “When I’m actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you’re listening to a record and it’s really hot, then you’ll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.”

— Curtis Jackson

106. “If you don’t have finances to jump on opportunites or at least room to support yourself while you’re tryin to move into new situations then you can’t even evolve.”

— Curtis Jackson

107. “I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It’s hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.”

— Curtis Jackson

108. “Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.”

— Curtis Jackson

109. “I have a romantic side.”

— Curtis Jackson

110. “In business there’s people who have talent and there’s people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.”

— Curtis Jackson

111. “Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.”

— Curtis Jackson

112. “I’ve been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn’t speak to me. I’ve seen the music break the language barrier.”

— Curtis Jackson

113. “If you’re familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he’s gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.”

— Curtis Jackson

114. “When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I’m here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.”

— Curtis Jackson

115. “A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They’ll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.”

— Curtis Jackson

116. “At that age, it’s one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.”

— Curtis Jackson

117. “Without music I wouldn’t have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I’m absolutely conscious of business.”

— Curtis Jackson

118. “What I want to be is the best bad guy you’ve ever seen.”

— Curtis Jackson

119. “I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.”

— Curtis Jackson

120. “Power is confidence. The confidence to deliver your answer when you’re in a board meeting is what will allow you to move up faster. The confidence to be yourself in front of people creates a separation.”

— Curtis Jackson

121. “I think either you’re creative or you’re not. In general, I don’t think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you’re writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.”

— Curtis Jackson

122. “The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.”

— Curtis Jackson

123. “It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.”

— Curtis Jackson

124. “The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It’s bringing a younger demographic to the sport.”

— Curtis Jackson

125. “Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.”

— Curtis Jackson

126. “I think I’ll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.”

— Curtis Jackson

127. “At first, my love was just to be in the studio and make the music and enjoy it when I hear it played back, but then the biggest thing for me was to see the response of the people. When you go out and see the energy in the crowd, it’s incredible.”

— Curtis Jackson

128. “I think it’s impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you’ll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.”

— Curtis Jackson

129. “I’m not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain’t me.”

— Curtis Jackson

130. “Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.”

— Curtis Jackson

131. “Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.”

— Curtis Jackson

132. “My son is the reason why I write music. He’s the reason why everything is different for me.”

— Curtis Jackson

133. “My grandmother, she’s been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn’t want to go to church, she didn’t force me. She was cool.”

— Curtis Jackson

134. “When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.”

— Curtis Jackson

135. “I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it’s exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.”

— Curtis Jackson

136. “You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it’s the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.”

— Curtis Jackson

137. “When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called “battling.” All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.”

— Curtis Jackson

138. “When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I’m gonna die and they’re not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.”

— Curtis Jackson

139. “I make music cuz it’s almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don’t do nothin but make music.”

— Curtis Jackson

140. “I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I’ve taken a little beating behind it.”

— Curtis Jackson

141. “If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can’t allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”

— Curtis Jackson

142. “My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.”

— Curtis Jackson

143. “What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.”

— Curtis Jackson

144. “The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I’m wrong than the law is wrong. That’s really the way I felt.”

— Curtis Jackson

145. “I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.”

— Curtis Jackson

146. “The more my fans know about my past, the more they’ll be able to predict and understand some of the moves I make in the future.”

— Curtis Jackson

147. “Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.”

— Curtis Jackson

148. “Ya’ll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.”

— Curtis Jackson