Fugees Quotes
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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.
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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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.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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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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I believe God will make a way.
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I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
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We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.
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It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
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To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
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The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
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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.