Fugees Quotes
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This life is a process of learning.
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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'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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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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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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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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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 was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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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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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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Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
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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 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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I ran very fast in the wrong direction.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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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 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've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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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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It's funny how money change a situation.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.