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" A servant sometimes need to be served. "
Rza
Sometimes
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" I'd love to make 10 to 12 films in my life. That's a lot of films, but it's doable. "
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" I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan. "
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" I got a bad habit of creating. "
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" We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad. "
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" To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure. "
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" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "
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" So I was about 19 when I got my first SP-1200, and on that SP-1200, I made 'Bring The Pain' and a few other classic Wu joints. "
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Classic
Pain
" When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it. "
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Put
Bring
Elevator
" I don't have the same respect for time as most people. I take that extra day to think about it. "
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Respect
Time
People
" I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that. "
Rza
Iron
Afford
Animation
" I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day. "
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Love
Listen
" As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie. "
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Naive
One Thing
Though
" I'm addicted to music. "
Rza
Addicted
Music
" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "
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Time
Album
New
" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "
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Thought
Broadway
About
" I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination. "
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Money
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Say
" The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown. "
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Great
Leader
Democracy
" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "
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Gangs
New York
New
" You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life. "
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You
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Life
" I live a very satisfying life. Not because I've made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that's the American dream: to be at peace at home. "
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Peace
Home
Children
" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "
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Age
Bible
Book
" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "
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Differently
Guy
Make
" I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. "
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Always
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Going
" I love Paul Simon... his lyrics. "
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" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "
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Waiting
Got
Day
" When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio. "
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Make
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" Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that. "
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" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "
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" The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities. "
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