Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Wyclef Jean
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
Loyal
Hips
Essence
Came
Community
Back
Sayin
Matter
Nothin
Hops
More quotes by Wyclef Jean
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
Wyclef Jean
I always look outside.
Wyclef Jean
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
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
I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
Wyclef Jean
It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
Wyclef Jean
I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
Wyclef Jean
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
Wyclef Jean
I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
Wyclef Jean
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
Wyclef Jean
No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
Wyclef Jean
Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
Wyclef Jean