Wyclef Jean Quotes
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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 lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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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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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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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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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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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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.
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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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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.