If you keep eating McDonald's, you gonna get sick. You need a real home-cooked meal. And I knew that that would be healthier. And that's what Wu-Tang was: It was a home-cooked meal of hip-hop. Of the real people.
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I invested in the album. Look, if I never did anything again in music, it wouldn’t affect my life materially. I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True fulfillment comes from love and family, not material success.
In this quote, RZA emphasizes that genuine happiness and satisfaction in life stem from meaningful relationships with loved ones rather than financial achievements or fame. He highlights that the true essence of the 'American dream' lies in finding peace and contentment at home, surrounded by family, which fosters a deep sense of beauty and fulfillment in life.
Themes
HappinessFamilyLovePeaceSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be shared at a family reunion to emphasize the importance of togetherness.
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I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a sword. And so I say that we have the best lyrics, so, therefore, we are the Wu-Tang Clan.
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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.
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I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination.
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I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their own career, and have put out more albums without me than they've done with me?
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