Fugees Quotes
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Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
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I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
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How you gonna win when you ain't right within?
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Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
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I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
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Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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My parents were Christian.
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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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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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I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike Jackson, I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.