Ice Cube Quotes

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I don't do things by the book.

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.