Fugees Quotes
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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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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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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 have inner peace. It's a different person.
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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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My parents were Christian.
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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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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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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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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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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'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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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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Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
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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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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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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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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'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.