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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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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 like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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 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
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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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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.
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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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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.
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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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