Wyclef Jean Quotes

The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.

I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!

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

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful

I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.

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.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

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

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 important to stand up. Schools are important.

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.

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.

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

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

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

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

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

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

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

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

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.

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

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

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

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.

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

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

On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.

Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.

When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.

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?

What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.