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" 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. "
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" It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.' "
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" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "
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" I got a bad habit of creating. "
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" Twenty percent of my records, you'll find a loop, like two or three loops per album out of 13 or 15 songs. I'd rather keep it like that. "
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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 became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, 'Dead bird, dead bird.' It didn't feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. "
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Bird
" I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you prepare for something, it's like jumping into cold water, but you're prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don't swim, you drown. "
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Start
Swim
" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "
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Special
Most
" My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine. "
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Bible
Book
" 'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs. "
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Just
" 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
" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "
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" 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
Radio
" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "
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" Because I have so many brothers and sisters, I think I'm able to have a certain patience. "
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" I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed. "
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Other
Never
" The spaghetti Western genre is definitely one of favorites. "
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Genre
Favorites
Western
" 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. "
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Age
First
Movie Theater
" 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? "
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" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "
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" I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped. "
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" We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only inspired our communities but other communities. That's one of the greatest things an artist in any field could know: that you've touched the mind of another artist. "
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" Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me. "
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" I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run. "
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Life
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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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Me
Hip-Hop
Structure
" When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it. "
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First
People
Only