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" Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of understanding your environment, the world around you. "
Gza
World
Science
Understanding
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" 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 on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell. "
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" I'm constantly writing. "
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" I'm a late-night person who likes to eat a lot of breakfast stuff at night. "
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" Oh, hip hop is always changing. "
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" I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At that time, albums didn't have explicit stickers on them, so some of the songs had profanity on them, and I was moved by that. I would listen to those songs, to the flow, and I'd balance it back and forth with the nursery stuff I had. "
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" 'Liquid Swords' just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words. "
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" When we did 'Back In The Game' on the Wu-Tang 'Iron Flag' album, I did a verse about gambling. I didn't want to be 'back in the game' or 'back on the block' - that's typical. I made it all metaphorical. "
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" I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing. "
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" 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 better to be that way. "
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Way
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" I think I'm okay; I got a pretty good shot when I concentrate. I like pool. "
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" I'm not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I'm always grabbing from certain things and getting inspired by something whether I'm totally involved in it or not. "
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Person
" In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story. "
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" I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things. "
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" Most people associate Wu Tang with Staten Island or Shaolin, but actually, I'm a native of Brooklyn. I was born in Crown Heights, raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick. "
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Crown
" We've done a lot of shows and a few albums without Dirty. He was a wild and crazy dude. "
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" I drink a lot of juice. "
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" Snowboarding is skateboarding without the wheels, just on snow. It's the same thing, just that one is on hard ground with the wheels, the other is on snow. You just have to know how to maneuver your board and do things you want to do. "
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" I love Indian food and Thai food; those are, like, my favorites. I also like Japanese and some Italian. "
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" I'm just really, really laid-back-slash-lazy. Last minute with everything. "
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Just
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" I probably take about a month to write a song, depending on how much time I can dedicate to it, and it depends on how many hours a day there are and how many days in a week and weeks in a month. "
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Song
Day
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" You are like a sponge when you are young. "
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" There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music. "
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You
" I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes. "
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" I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from. "
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" I get inspired by many different things. "
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" If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming on that! And if you take the lyrics out of that song, you get a hip-hop beat. It's a rock song, though. So it's not out of my element for me to get with Black Lips. "
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" I've seen a dude who had the Wu logo tatted on his face. I mean, his whole face was tatted, but the Wu was the biggest thing on his face. That is a statement, something that means a lot to us. "
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" Learn all you can learn. Never stop learning. "
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" People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking? "
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" I am honored that 'Liquid Swords,' the song and album, have been so widely embraced for so long. "
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