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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
Pras Michel Fugees -
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
Wyclef Jean Fugees