Gza Quotes

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

I get inspired by everything - everything that is around me.

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Do me a favor - right now, today, start a list of all your crazy obsessions, the things that get your heart pumping, that wake you up in the middle of the night. Put it above your desk and use it to guide you, to jumpstart your writing each and every day.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.