Ice Cube Quotes

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

Fashion is about change, don't you think?

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Every idea has its time.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

I think everyone now rotates. The Tinkerman was one; now there are a lot of tinkermen!

A lot of people bit into Timbaland's sounds.

The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.