Fugees Quotes
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For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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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.
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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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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I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.
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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.
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I like a brother that cuts to the chase.
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I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.
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Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
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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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In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
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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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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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I have inner peace. It's a different person.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness