Gza Quotes

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I try not to do anything by formula.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I don't do things by the book.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

We are a little out of the box.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.