Gza Quotes

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

A really good poem is full of music.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

It was actually working with Kendrick Lamar that pushed me further into the act of songwriting, specifically.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude.

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

I'm not the greatest writer or the great rapper.