GZA quotes:

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor

Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.

First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope, When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap That's cleaner than a bar of soap! And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight, Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual.

I got a smile that'll make the mirror crack, And I seem to stay under clouds that's pitch black. So when it rains, it pours, and when it pours, I'm soaked. I contracted lung cancer from third hand smoke, And I'm like the frog that's dying to be a prince, The boy who cried wolf and no one was convinced. The man who hit lotto and lost his ticket, In a rainstorm...and struck by lightning trying to get it.

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

She was superfly, Curtis may have feeled her ass

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. It's good. I'm grateful for everything we have done throughout our careers and if there's nothing else to put out, then there's nothing to put out. I'm constantly writing and working. It doesn't stop there.