Fugees Quotes
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
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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.
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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
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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.
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I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
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I believe God will make a way.
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The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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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.