I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't. — GZA Copy Share Image
Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong! — GZA Copy Share Image
Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s. — Gza Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. — Gza Copy Share Image
So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts! — GZA Copy Share Image
I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be… — GZA Copy Share Image
Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like… — GZA Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an… — Gza Copy Share Image
I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were… — Gza Copy Share Image
Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles.… — Gza Copy Share Image
If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming… — Gza Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA Copy Share Image
I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack, And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black. So when it… — GZA Copy Share Image
I don't eat meat - chicken, fish, none of that. I eat a lot of vegetable sandwiches, like lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts, cucumbers, whatever I… — Gza Copy Share
I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs… — Gza Copy Share
I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at and how… — Gza Copy Share
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. — Gza Copy Share
As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's… — Gza Copy Share
When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was… — Gza Copy Share
I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims… — Gza Copy Share
Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major… — Gza Copy Share
I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or rappers to… — Gza Copy Share
It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write. — Gza Copy Share
Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me,… — Gza Copy Share
