Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. "

Related Quotes:

" As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to. "

" 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 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. "

" My parents were Christian. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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