Kazuchika Okada Quotes

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

There are changes in the works.

Oh, hip hop is always changing.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' needs a little bit fresher sound. I might put some gospel beats in 'Hail to the Chief.'

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

Change in all things is sweet.

I like progress but I hate change.

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

Change is not always progress.

We have to change.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Dynamism is a function of change.

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.

I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.

If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.

Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.

Everything evolves, not just music.

Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

I don't dab, bro.