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" All that violence in the world, we need to stop that. "
Wyclef Jean
Stop
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World
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" I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. "
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" I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to. "
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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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" As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick. "
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" I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. "
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" Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change. "
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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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" I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual. "
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" I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. "
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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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" What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. "
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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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" 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. "
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