Quotes About Innovation

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I'm not hip-hop.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I'm just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want 'cause I'm a fan of hip-hop.

One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep.

Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

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

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.