Wyclef Jean Quotes

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Wyclef Jean

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 17, 1972

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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 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.

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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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When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.

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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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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.

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