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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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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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 hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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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.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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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.
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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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.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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