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 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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes finding stability and focus amidst chaos in life.
In this quote, Rza draws an analogy between the sun's role in the solar system and the human experience. He suggests that, like the sun, individuals should maintain a central focus and composure while navigating the myriad of chaotic events happening in life. By recognizing their own gravitational influence, people can better understand their position in the world and how they can positively affect their surroundings despite external distractions and complexities.
Themes
ChaosFocusLifeOrderSunGravitational Influence
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about resilience in times of stress.
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All quotes →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.
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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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