Fugees Quotes
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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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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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
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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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My parents were Christian.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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 rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.