Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. — Gza Copy Share Image
I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far… — Gza Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what… — Gza Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and… — Gza Copy Share Image
I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to… — Gza Copy Share Image
Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will… — Gza Copy Share Image
In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop… — Gza Copy Share Image
We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I… — 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
