Quotes from Wyclef Jean


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My parents were Christian.


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.


Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.


What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.


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.


When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.


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.


I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.


Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.


My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.


What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.


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.


I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.


I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.


I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.


I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!


I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60.


As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.


With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.


I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.