Fugees Quotes
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I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?
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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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God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.
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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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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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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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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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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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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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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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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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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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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
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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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 ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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.