Wyclef Jean quotes Born: 10/17/1972 Country: usa

• “Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.” (Wyclef Jean) [/love]
• “When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the dance are just going calm down. I don't know no other artist that you can throw in the middle of a dance like that.” (Wyclef Jean) [calm/artist]
• “There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.” (Wyclef Jean) [artist]
• “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) [human/mind/face]
• “A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.” (Wyclef Jean) [music/life]
• “When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “Some girls get turned on by being called a bitch.” (Wyclef Jean) [girls/being]
• “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) [character/love/people/people]
• “I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.” (Wyclef Jean) [life/time]
• “I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there was an experience for me and for them. We are living in a new millennium, a new era. Hip-hop and string instrumentation was brought together.” (Wyclef Jean) [stereotype/right/experience]
• “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) [people/watch/time/crazy]
• “When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy.” (Wyclef Jean) [time]
• “I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “You never really know how you come to the earth, it's really a mystery, and when you leave, it's sort of a mystery too-but somehow, whoever you're a part of, you have a natural connection with them, and if you tune in, you can tell if they're still here or they're not.” (Wyclef Jean) [connection]
• “It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.” (Wyclef Jean) [being/being]
• “I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.” (Wyclef Jean) [think/language/english/people]
• “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/life]
• “You all know I can play the guitar, you all know I can sing, but what you all forgot is these are all the beats that I come from.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.” (Wyclef Jean) [music]
• “I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “We produce, and we have producers we work with.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “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/nice/willpower/willpower]
• “When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and we'll be gone for three hours and then come back and be working another 15 to 20 hours.” (Wyclef Jean) [school]
• “When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.” (Wyclef Jean) [think/people/money]
• “When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.” (Wyclef Jean) [time]
• “It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “Right now, I've got the lead in what I'm doing. I'm in the best position. No one expects me to come in at number one, and I'm not concerned with it either. Let me come in at number 20, I'll be happy.” (Wyclef Jean) [position]
• “That's this new kid Governor, he sounds just like Marvin Gaye. And he's like only 23. We have another kid, Prolific.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the jab, good with the stab.” (Wyclef Jean)
• “Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.” (Wyclef Jean) [help/school/situation/lawyer]
• “My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. I've been doing it for seven years professionally.” (Wyclef Jean) [family]

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