Wyclef Jean Quotes
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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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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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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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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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.
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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 you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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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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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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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.
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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.