Kid Cudi Quotes

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

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

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.