Wyclef Jean famous quotes

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Smile #Character #People

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
-- Wyclef Jean

#Hip Hop #Today #Hips

Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Real #Believe #Forever

I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Dream #Thinking #America

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Beautiful #Baby #Sunshine

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

#Artist #Hip Hop #Pieces

I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Father #Parent #Grew

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#War #Father #School

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Made #Bigs

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?
-- Wyclef Jean

#Country #Mean #Way

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Age #Young

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Kids #Years #Accomplishment

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

#Reality #Ice #Vanilla

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Eye #Grandfather #Spirituality

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

#Funny #Life #Good Times

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Block #Mind #Cotton

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

#School #Musical #Band

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Country #Mean #Years

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Rap #Expression #Together

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#School #Cutting #Successful

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

#America #People #Want

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Giving #People #The End Of The Day

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

#Generations #Embrace

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

#Challenges #Grain

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Scare #Way #Trunks

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

#Family #Father #Mama

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

#People #Littles #Entertainment

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

#Rap #Trying #Break

I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Beautiful #Nice #Cities

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

#Thinking #Want #Different

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Crazy #Feet #People

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

#Real #Hands #People

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

#Uncles #Daddy #Grandfather

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#School #Kfc #Bird

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Mind #Singing #Bob

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

#Love #Peace #Bob

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
-- Wyclef Jean

#Proud

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
-- Wyclef Jean

#Violence #Needs #World

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

#Song #Sometimes

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
-- Wyclef Jean

#Successful #People #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
-- Wyclef Jean

#Nice #Inspiration #Car

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

#Rap #Feel Good #Records

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Love You #Angel #Heart

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!
-- Wyclef Jean

#No Excuses #Excuse #Projects

My parents were Christian.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Christian #Pregnancy #Parent

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

#Ghetto #Negative #Projects

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.
-- Wyclef Jean

#Growing Up #Cutting #Thinking