Fugees Quotes
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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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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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This life is a process of learning.
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I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
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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 want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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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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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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
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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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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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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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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.