Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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
Find
Always
Knocks
Formula
Formulas
Talent
More quotes by Wyclef Jean
On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
Wyclef Jean
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
Wyclef Jean
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
Wyclef Jean
My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
Wyclef Jean
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
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
Wyclef Jean
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
Wyclef Jean
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
Wyclef Jean
When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
Wyclef Jean
The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
Wyclef Jean
I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
Wyclef Jean
I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
Wyclef Jean
It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
Wyclef Jean
People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
Wyclef Jean