Wyclef Jean Quotes
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.