Fugees Quotes
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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
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I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
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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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I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
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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 don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.
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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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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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The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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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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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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.
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This life is a process of learning.
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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.