Top 196 Quotes & Sayings by Rza - Page 2

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.

We told you Wu-Tang was forever, and some people forgot that. It's not some fad.

I have love for the entertainment side of the world.

You don't 'practice' martial arts; it's more like a way of life.

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.

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

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

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

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.

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

I love the Bee Gees, and I love Barry Gibb and Andy Gibb. I listen to them almost every day.

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

'Grease?' I watch that film over and over.

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

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.

It brings me joy to hear that people are laughing at my scene in 'Due Date.'

The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies.

If you let a man that you love or anybody - man, woman or child that you love - sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them.

I'm addicted to music.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

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

My wife and I go to movies every Wednesday.

I stopped with the red meat, let go of turkey and chicken, and then I held onto fish. When we finished 'Wu-Tang Forever,' I felt like I evolved and completely dived into veganism.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

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.

Growing up in New York, there are a lot of tenement buildings and a lot of projects. You don't leave your projects too much. The laundry's there. The grocery store is there. Everything takes place right there. When I got knowledge of myself and thought about moving around the city, hip-hop was something that helped me.

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.

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

I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys.

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

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

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 always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.

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 love Paul Simon... his lyrics.

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

When I made hip-hop, I made hip-hop. I didn't make R&B or make it for the radio.

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.

Through great input you get great output.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.