Chuck D Quotes

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Any project that I put out, I never want it to sound like the first one. It can have some vibes or stuff that matches, but I want it to be growth, progression, and you can't be comfortable when you're growing. If it feels good and it sounds good, it's good.

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

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

I guess your style should be ever evolving because that's the best thing about it.

To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

Wrestling is about evolving, and you always want to evolve and develop yourself.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

Order and creativity are complementary.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.