Wyclef Jean Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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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 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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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I've never really written something that was inspired.
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
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I always look outside.