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Gza Quotes

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

Gza

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 22, 1966

Topics

Music Song You Go Sometimes Way

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Jesse Lee Soffer

Think Media First Playing Responders

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

John Burroughs

Nature God Now Used Word Much

When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.

Robert Lopez

Funny Music Heart Sweet Moving Hard

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Steven Wright

Friends You Barbie Why Buy Her

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Steve Wozniak

Great Time Myself People Place

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan

Children Compassion Teen Sympathy

I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

David Sylvian

Explore Like Studio Arrangement Lot

My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on 'Cosby' nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.

Christine Lakin

Hat Forward Year Top Real Always

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Brian Eno

Time World Interesting You

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Arthur Erickson

Order Forgotten Things Slowly While

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Todd Rundgren

Music Myself People Ideas Artist

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

Ryan Eggold

School Limits High School Bad High