Latest Curtis Jackson Quotes from Interviews

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• I'd like to connect with music like I did in the beginning. To have that intensity again, to have a song that comes on at 1 o'clock in the morning and it's the premiere song at that point. It's almost magic because, when you condition for it, it doesn't take long for you to write the content that everyone in the world can agree on at one time.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, Morning, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

• I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is a huge compliment. For me it's like, if a person is ambitious enough, they run in a tunnel that doesn't end...And I learn things about myself all the time.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Ambitious, Passionate

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  People, Energy, Crowds

  "How 50 Cent became major success". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. August 9, 2003.

• 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

  Jobs, Cracks, Paper

• 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

  Cuz, Involved, I Can

• 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

  Cracks, Hood, Music Business

• "Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

  Curtis Jackson

  Struggle, Mean, Class

• 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Names, Metaphor, Projects

  Source: www.daveyd.com

• 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

  Eye, Opportunity, Stay Positive

• When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

  Curtis Jackson

  Circles, People, Different

• 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

  College, Degrees, Needs

• 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

  Moving, Support, Rooms

• Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

  Curtis Jackson

  Trying, Paper, Making Money

• Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kids, Eye, Fighting

• When you walk in your home you don't have to maintain the same attitude that you had out in the street. You can be different with your people and your family than you are with a person that you run into in the hood. Even them they have to know to respond to you differently in the hood cuz if people see something out of the character that they portray you. They'll try you.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Attitude, Home

• Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

  Curtis Jackson

  Wall, Gun, Situation

• If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.

  Curtis Jackson

  People, Hustle, Pay

• 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

  People, Talent, Advantage

  Source: www.daveyd.com

• If you're not doin anything and you don't have goals and you got nothing to do then you might as well go jump off something, you just wasting the air.

  Curtis Jackson

  Air, Goal, Might

• Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

  Curtis Jackson

  Talking, Listening, Chance

• 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

  New York, Law, Cities

• Real man is someone who handles his responsibilities. Take care of all of his responsibilities. No matter how, by any means take care of your situations.

  Curtis Jackson

  Real, Mean, Responsibility

• I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hurt, Blow, Thug

  Source: www.daveyd.com

• 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

  Gold, Lasts, Jewelry

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

  Curtis Jackson

  Stars, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com