Fugees Quotes
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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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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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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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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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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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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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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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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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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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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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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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
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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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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.