Quotes by Wyclef Jean

About Wyclef Jean:

Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. At the age of nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life there. He first achieved fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees. Jean won three Grammy Awards for his musical work.
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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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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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

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

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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

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

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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

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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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You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's im...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameWyclef Jean
  • DescriptionHaitian musician, record producer, and politician
  • BornOctober 17, 1969
  • CountryHaiti
  • ProfessionRapper; Singer; Musician; Human Rights Activist