When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.
RZAThere's the 5% of the people that are wise and righteous and I'd definitely be amongst them, building, communicating, and continuing to try and figure out how we can awaken the 85%. The 85% are walking around [like] cattle, not realizing the things we do, the violence we do; you see people falling victim to all sorts of unnecessary things because they just don't know the way and nobody is showing them the way.
RZAIt's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.
RZAYou can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.
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