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

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

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

" When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then. "

" Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album. "

" While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want. "

" I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs! "

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

" Art - the beautiful thing about art, from my standpoint, is that it has no discrimination. "

" I have a special style of frying tofu that even the most carnivorous meat-and-potatoes eaters enjoy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books. "

" 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. "

" I have love for the entertainment side of the world. "

" With '8 Diagrams,' I just skimmed the surface of musical exploration. "

" 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'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets. "

" Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, 'Well he did this; he did that.' "

" The whole first 100 Wu-Tang songs was made on an ASR-10. "

" 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. "