GZA Quotes

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack, And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black. So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked. I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke, And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince, The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced. The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket, In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

I don't think I have a favorite chess move, other than checkmate, because each move is part of a combination of other moves. Just like I don't have a favorite piece, because they all work together. I mean, I love myself; I am the king on the board, but other pieces do different things and they all work together, so it's not one particular move unless it's checkmate because usually there's an answer. You know, chess is about questions and answers.

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. It's good. I'm grateful for everything we have done throughout our careers and if there's nothing else to put out, then there's nothing to put out. I'm constantly writing and working. It doesn't stop there.

Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.

In chess there can never be a favorite move. I can probably pinpoint in a specific game, there might be a move that was like, "Oh, that was a good move." And maybe certain moves turned the whole game around, but there's not one special move that does that, unless it's checkmate because that's when the game is over.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

She was superfly, Curtis may have feeled her ass

First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope, When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap That's cleaner than a bar of soap! And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight, Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver.

I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor

I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

It's never really quiet in the Wu-Tang tour bus unless it's a certain time of day. Sometimes it's quiet, but you're not going to have eight, nine members on a bus in total silence and everyone is up, unless there are some issues going on, unless there's a death or something really serious that just has us all thinking. Other than that, we're gonna be kicking it.