Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it. "

Related Quotes:

" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "

" 'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs. "

" 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. "

" I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me? "

" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "

" 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. "

" A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him. "

" I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent. "

" I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow. "

" I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination. "

" I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway. "

" In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities. "

" Every time I make a new album, I get better and better. "

" I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.' "

" I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people. "

" If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them. "

" 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. "

" Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it. "

" I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight. "

" If I'm a cop, and every time I see a young black youth - whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out - and they're not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day - things that a man does - you're going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. "

" One of my illest villains was the Butcher from 'Gangs of New York,' Daniel Day-Lewis. "

" I was definitely a big Run-DMC fan. "

" That movie 'Hellraiser 2' - to me, that was the most evilest display of evil I've ever seen. I watched that movie ten times because I couldn't believe that each character became more evil than the other. "

" I got a bad habit of creating. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

" I would not have one turntable if my brother didn't buy the turntable. I was the dreamer; he was the doer. "

" I've been vegan for over 20 years, but I started as a vegetarian and grew into veganism in between. "

" I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism. "

" I actually have eyes that irritate easily, so I wear the glasses to keep stuff out of my eyes. If you see me in shades indoors, you might be like, 'RZA is wearing shades inside. What the hell is going on?' I'm protecting my eyes, and I'm looking cool. "

" 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. "