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" 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. "

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

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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. "

" I'm addicted to music. "

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" I got a bad habit of creating. "

" 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. "

" I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in. "

" You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you do something in music and see it happen again in the next generation, you know you're on the right wave length. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently. "

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" Everybody wants to be a good fighter. "

" Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV. "

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" Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it. "

" 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. "

" The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. "

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" 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. "