Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Wyclef Jean
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Wyclef Jean.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
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.
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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?
I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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.
I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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.
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.
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.
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.
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 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.
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.
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'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.
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.
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.
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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.
'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.
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.
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.
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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.
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.
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
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.
My parents were Christian.
I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60.
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.
What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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?
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