Fugees Quotes
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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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I have inner peace. It's a different person.
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Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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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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Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!
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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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Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
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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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You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
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It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars